The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an experience of the senses, an invitation to see, taste, and smell. But for me, more than anything else, the Festival is an auditory experience, with its ...

A renewed appreciation of the seven-stringed zither is as much about understanding ancient Chinese culture as it is enjoying the music When civil servant Jackel Wan Chak-kui, 28, first heard a guqin ...

Originating nearly 2,500 years ago, the guzheng is a traditional Chinese zither, a stringed instrument featuring up to 21 movable strings and bridges. The ancient instrument was the exact piece ...

SHANGHAI — For the past two months, Li Chenxiao has spent an hour every day practicing the zhongruan, a traditional Chinese plucked string instrument, at a speed of over 200 beats per minute. On Aug.

Wenzhuo Zhang was extremely young when she took up an extremely old musical instrument. At the impressionable age of five, Zhang (’15) attended an after-school music program in China’s Hebei province, ...

Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry and American Cruise Lines. Additional funding is provided by public television viewers. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and ...

Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

A musician who lost his Chinese stringed instrument in Manhattan now has it back. A New Jersey man found it and a Michigan woman figured out who owned it. Wang Guowei left his erhu in front of a ...

7 3/4" wide x 2 1/2" deep 47 1/2" height 120.6 x 19.6 x 6.3 cm ...