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"So beautiful like a sea glittering in sun and fishes making piruets. For me this sounds like a happy music. The performer is beautiful like a dream and her clothes and the instrument too. Endlessly ...
The Emmy-winning performer of a 16-string Vietnamese zither will perform at San Francisco’s Aug. 2 Yerba Buena Gardens ...
Often accompanying the guqin, a zither-like seven-stringed traditional musical instrument, the xiao, a traditional vertical bamboo flute with a relatively light sound, was often viewed as a foil.
What began more than a decade ago as research into a traditional German stringed instrument has turned Davenport into one of this country’s zither centers.
The sculpture based on a zither—an instrument with strings stretched across a flat box—is a slanted trapezoid with strings running down its back.
Grains of Euphora relies on bowed saw, electronic manipulation and Reed’s own musical instrument invention, the pencilina, a zither-like instrument with stretched horizontal strings, capable of ...
The next, he might be doing research on the rudra vīnā (a zither-like instrument from northern India) or 20th-century Irish harp making, or working with a colleague from a different department.
NYC’s abazaba (until recently fka Snacky) are a unique group, featuring Sam Day Harmet, Erica Mancini, Quince Marcum, and Steve La Rosa who all play electric taishōgotos — a Japanese zither ...
Phillips only recorded a handful of 78s in the 1920s & 1930s & not much is known about the zither-like instrument (s) he played. The mystery is part of the wonder of his music.
Their strings once made of twisted silk, Chinese stringed instruments the zither, or guqin, and erhu have a long history.
Peng Jingxuan plucks the strings of a guzheng, a zither-like instrument. She is giving a street performance accompanied by a plush toy panda, the animal people associate with China. What makes this ...