Musical Instruments of China (grade 8 mapeh/music)

2. •The philosopher
confucius conceived
music in the highest
sense as a means of
calming the passion
and of dispelling
unrest and lust,
rather than as a form
amusement.

3. •Chinese
believed that
sound
influences
the harmony
of the

4. Chinese
Musical
Instrumen
ts

5. YUEQIN
• a moon-
shaped lute
with shorter
neck and four
strings
• played with a
spectrum,
used for
accompanyin
g local

6. PIPA
• a four-
stringed
lute with
30 frets
and a
pear-
shaped

7. ERHU
• a two-
stringed
fiddle and
one of the
most
popular
chinese
instrument

8. YUNLUO
• literally "cloud
gongs" or
"cloud of
gongs"
• a set of 10
small tuned
gongs mounted
in a wooden
frame
• the gong's are
generally of

9. SHENG
• also called as
chinese mouth
organ and looks
like a set of
panpipes with
12 to 36 bamboo
pipes.
• sheng is one of
the oldest
chinese musical

10. DIZI
• traditional
chinese flute
• it can have a
membrane
over an extra
hole to give
the
characteristic

11. ZHENG
• an ancient
chinese
instrument that
has an arched
surface and an
elongated-
trapezoid with
13 to 21
strings
stretched over

12. PENGLING
• two small
bells made of
high-tin
bronze,
without
internal
clappers,
and
bottomless