guqin qin 古琴 古 琴 gu 古gu gu古 琴qin qin琴 古琴guqin qin+琴 gu+古 instruments instrument old ancient zither lute 7-stringed chinese music society societies organization organizations association associations institute institutes
Li Xiangting 李祥霆 Professor 1940- Beijing. Elite professional qin player. Current president of the China Guqin Committee. Noted for improvisation. 國家級非物質文化遺產項目(古琴藝術)代表性傳承人.
Wang Fei 王菲 MA; Emily (active) San Francisco Bay Area, CA. A young qin player (taught by Li Xiangting) based in the United States, founding director of North American Guqin Association.
American qin player/scholar John Thompson advocates for both silk + nylon-wrapped metal strings for different styles of qin music (much like classical (nylon-string) and steel-string guitar music).
Anna Guo (Guo Min-qing), former professor at the renowned Shanghai Conservatory of Music, has been teaching and playing the yang-qin (guqin, qin) for 30+ years. Solo albums: Collection of Yang-qin Solos (1992), Masterpieces Performed by Yang-qin Masters
The guqin is associated with China's scholarly class; was one of the classical "four arts of the scholar," (along with Go or weiqi (a board game), calligraphy, and painting). Qin was also strongly associated with Daoist philosophy; the qin was more than
Fan yin 〔泛音〕, or "floating sounds," are harmonics where the player lightly touches the string with one or more fingers of the left hand at a position indicated by the hui dots, pluck and lift, creating a crisp and clear sound
an yin 〔按音 / 案音 / 實音 / 走音〕, or "stopped sounds." This forms the bulk of most qin pieces and requires the player to press on a string with a finger or thumb of the left hand until it connects with the surface board, then pluck. Afterwards, the musician's h