Players Zhang Geping (L) and Zhao Xiaotong practice playing the pipa at Lanzhou traditional orchestra in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 13, 2019. Pipa, a pear-shaped stringed ...

China's national first-class musician Wu Yuxia performs pipa at a concert Photo: Courtesy of Wu Yuxia Once a little girl watching her teachers craft pipa fingernails with electric soldering irons and ...

CAIRO — An Egyptian girl plays music on oud, an ancient Arabic musical instrument, at the Arabic Oud House in a historical area of Cairo. The piece she is playing is the Chinese folk song Molihua ...

Shahd Hesham, an oud player and teacher, plays the oud at Arabic Oud House in Cairo, Egypt, on Sept. 24, 2022. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) A young Egyptian lady was playing a piece of music on the oud, an ...

Li Xinyang enrolled in the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, in Sydney, Australia, in 2012, becoming the first student in the institution's history to major in pipa, the traditional Chinese stringed ...

The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra opened its new season on September 12 and 13 with “Silken Notes of the Pipa”, a concert that showcased the various iterations of the musical instrument as well as how ...

You're hearing Min Xiao-Fen, one of the world's greatest virtuosos, playing the pipa. It's a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument from China with a history that goes back thousands of years. Min's ...

Chinese pipa player Wu Yuxia never says "no" to educational performances and projects since she believes that spreading the word about the four-stringed lute, a Chinese musical instrument with more ...

Apple today has updated GarageBand for Mac and iOS to “celebrate the rich history of Chinese music.” The update for both platforms includes a variety of new sounds and instruments that cater towards ...

Music is universal across all civilisations, both ancient and modern, and stands as one of the great joys of life. Another joy is that many of the oldest songs and instruments can be played hundreds, ...