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Zha Fuxi 查阜西 1895-1976 Yushan Great researcher and player of qin music, specialising in qin songs.

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.

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Since moving to Canada, Liu Fang has explored beyond Chinese classical pipa music, and collaborated with a slide guitarist from India, a cellist from Eastern Europe, a shakuhachi player from Japan, a zither player from Vietnam, an oud musician from the Middle East, and has recorded these multiculti collaborations with the Montreal-based Philmultic label.

Gong Yi 龔一 1941- Shanghai Elite professional qin player previously from the Shanghai Chinese Orchestra. 國家級非物質文化遺產項目(古琴藝術)代表性傳承人.

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.

Shafiga Eyvazova (1947-) an Azeri Kamanche (Kamancha) player, professor of Baku Musical Academy and Arif Asadullayev's wife. She has performed as Azeri Kamanche (Kamancha) solist with Tekfen Philharmonic Orchestra.

Toumani Diabate | Kora Player | Cantelowes | The Mande Variations

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Yair Dalal, born in 1955; composer, violinist, oud player and singer; is probably the most prolific Israeli ethnic musician and plays an important role in shaping the global world music scene. Over the last decade he has put 11 albums, covering wide and varied cultural territory, and authentically representing Israel's cultures and fusing them through music as whole. Much of Dalal's work reflects his extensive musical skills in both classical and Arabic music and also reflects a strong affinity he has for the desert and its habitants. Dalal's family came to Israel from Baghdad and his Iraqi roots are embedded in his musical work.

The quijada (jawbone of a donkey or burro) is a great "guiro-type" percussion instrument. It's a rather large jawbone, fully-toothed. The variety of sounds a Quijada player can get is pretty thrilling (to me, anyway).

The ud, or oud, is a bit like a lute, sonically. The musical modes are very different from the lute played by guitarist Julian Bream, of course...but the instrument does resemble the lute somewhat. Yurdal Tokcan is my absolute favorite oud player. He's stunningly great! This 11-minute video's from Yurdal's February 2009 concert.

Finetune's playlist for the tags "Mongo Santamaria" can be played in a pop-out media player. The list is long, and the tunes go on forever. Very nice.

This instructional DVD is by Jim Donovan of Rusted Root. There's a media player on this page featuring some of Rusted Root's more percussive tunes.

Göksel Baktagir, Turkish kanun virtuoso, was born in 1966, and lives in Istanbul. He collaborates with my favorite oud (ud) player, Yurdal Tokcan.

Great music (embedded mp3 player) and article from the music blog "Magic of Juju," October 2007.