The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a (Chinese: 琵琶) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called...

of pipa which refers only to the pear-shaped instrument. According to the Pipa Annals 《琵琶赋》 by Fu Xuan (傅玄) of the Western Jin dynasty, the pipa was...

of pipa which refers only to the pear-shaped instrument. According to the Pipa Annals 《琵琶赋》 by Fu Xuan (傅玄) of the Western Jin Dynasty, the pipa was...

A folk instrument is a traditional musical instrument that has remained largely restricted to traditional folk music, and is not usually used in the classical...

Most plucked string instruments belong to the lute family (such as guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, balalaika, sitar, pipa, etc.), which generally...

types of musical instruments being played: Woman playing a dizi. Woman playing a jinghu. Woman playing a luo. Woman playing a pipa. Woman playing a sanxian...

Look up pipa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The pipa is a plucked Chinese string instrument. Pipa or PIPA may also refer to: Personal Information...

found in ancient Egypt. Similar instruments may have been present in China as early as the Qin dynasty as qin pipa (pipa was used as a generic term in ancient...

soundholes. Finally, the instrument is played with a pick with similar technique to both ruan and yueqin, whereas the pipa is played with the fingers...

pipa (琵琶). The zhongruan is a tenor-ranged instrument in the family of ruan (阮). In ancient China, the ruan was called Qin pipa (Qin [Dynasty] pipa,...

pear-shaped lute that is a traditional Korean musical instrument. It is derived from Chinese pipa and was introduced through the Silk Road to Goguryeo...

pipa Erhu Erxian Gaohu Gehu Guqin (Ku chin) Guzheng Huluhu Huqin (family of bowed lutes) Huobusi Jinghu Laruan Leiqin Liuqin Maguhu Nanyin pipa Pipa Qiqin...

needed] The most common Chinese stringed instruments are the guqin, zheng, erhu, and pipa. These instruments were developed over thousands of years. Guqin...

Makeover of the Pipa". AAS Annual Meeting. Retrieved December 22, 2007. I note the irony of this transformation: the modernization of the pipa as a Chinese...

Look up pipas in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Pipas may refer to: The plural of pipa, a Chinese stringed instrument A Mediterranean surname, also...

In musical instrument classification, string instruments or chordophones, are musical instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer...

This is a list of musical instruments, including percussion, wind, stringed, and electronic instruments. AlphaSphere Audiocubes Bass pedals Continuum...

(from Persian: تار, lit. 'string') is a long-necked, waisted lute family instrument, used by many cultures and countries including Iran, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan...

States Congress—the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). These followed smaller protests in late 2011. Protests were based on concerns...

Chữ Nôm: 彈琵琶) is a Vietnamese traditional plucked string instrument derived form the Chinese pipa, That first gained popularity in China before spreading...

non-Western instrument to receive this award. She also received The United States Artists Award in 2008. Born in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, Wu Man began taking pipa lessons...

other instruments. For example, Lun is a borrowed technique. In Lun, all five fingers pluck on a string to produce a tremolo sound similar to the Pipa. Techniques...

the Chinese bent-neck pipa (曲項琵琶; quxiang pipa), while the pipa itself was derived from similar instruments in West Asia. This type of biwa, known as...

replaced by pipa (枇杷), which is a reference to the fruit's visual resemblance to a miniature pipa lute. Because of its golden colour, the pipa represents...

Lately there has been a trend to use other instruments to accompany the qin, such as the xun (ceramic ocarina), pipa (four-stringed pear-shaped lute), dizi...

version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty, and although historically the term pipa was once used...

a stringed instrument. Frets usually extend across the full width of the neck. On some historical instruments and non-European instruments, frets are...

to pipa). Both features gives the Yueqin a sound quality in between ruan and pipa. While the ruan is used mostly for its lower range instruments (i.e...

ύπόμνημα [On Ptolemy's Harmonics] (in Greek). c. 232~233 – c. 305 CE. The pipa instrument carried with it a theory of musical modes that subsequently led to...

Asia which also introduced elements of Indian music. Instruments of Central Asian origin such as pipa were adopted in China, the Indian Heptatonic scale...