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
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
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).
Six of the seven songs in "Qin Show" use silk strings created using ancient techniques discovered only a year ago, thus maintaining historical accuracy in its timbre. The last song of the album uses steel strings to provide comparison to the sound of the
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
Most extensive English website dedicated to the qin, an absolute goldmine for its history, theory, literature, and more, by an accomplished qin player renowned for his dedicated reconstructions of the earliest surviving qin repertoire.
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.
Master Zhongxian Wu has devoted himself for 30+ to the study of ancient Qin music, Qigong, martial arts, Chinese medicine, Yijing science, and Chinese calligraphy. (masterwu.m3u (audio/x-mpegurl object)
Qin music tends to linger on certain notes, with an emphasis on silence and timbre, giving it a meditative quality. Being an instrument historically associated with literati, its aim is Confucian (in trying to cultivate one's mind) as well as Daoist (in s
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
Master Zhongxian Wu has devoted himself for 30+ to the study of ancient Qin music, Qigong, martial arts, Chinese medicine, Yijing science, and Chinese calligraphy.
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