Guan Pinghu 管平湖 名平, 字吉廠 1897-1967 Jiuyi. Revered master; dapued many qin scores such as Liu Shui and Guangling San. In 1977, his Liu Shui (Flowing Water) was sent into space on Voyager 1/Voyager 2
The seven-stringed guqin "has been part of Chinese culture since the time of Confucius…[the piece] is a meditation on the human sense of affinity with the universe