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Pipa

The pipa (Chinese: 琵琶; pinyin: pípá; Wade–Giles: p'i-p'a) is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 31. Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks…

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Necked bowl lutes · String instruments

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Electric pipa

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related to Use in contemporary classical music · 46
Pipa → A2, A3, Bright Sheng, Bun-Ching Lam, Carl Stone, Chen Yi, Cheng Yu, China, Chinese, D3, Donald Reid Womack, E2, E3, Electric, Electric Guitar, Electric Pipa, Europe, Extra Bass String, Guitar, Hardware
related to Modern era · 44
Pipa → Abing, As, Asia, Beijing, Both, Central Conservatory, China, Chinese, Chongming, Dunhuang Pipa Manuscript, Europe, Fan Boyan, Guoyue, He, In, Li, Li Tingsong, Lin, Lin Shicheng, Liu
related to Historical · 39
Pipa → Cao, Cao Bao, Cao Gang, Cao Poluomen, Cao Shancai, Celebrated, Central Asia, China, Duan Anjie, Duan Shanben, General Xie Shang, Han, He Huaizhi, India, Jin, Kang Kunlun, Kangju, Kingdom, Kucha, Lei Haiqing
related to Repertoire · 37
Pipa → Ambushed, Crane, Drum, Dunhuang, During, Eagle Seizing, Famous, Few, Flute, Further, Gaohe Jiangdong, High, High River Flows East, His Armour, Hua Collection, Hua Qiuping, In, Japan, Ju Shilin, Li Fangyuan
related to Bibliography · 31
Pipa → Chinese, Chordophone Culture, Duet, Grove's Dictionaries, ISBN, James, John, Journal, JSTOR, June, Kent State University Press, Laurence, March, Millward, Music, Musicians, Myers, New Grove Dictionary, New York, Picken
related to Gallery · 28
Pipa → AD, An, ArtA, Chinese, Dingjiazha Tomb No, Dunhuang, Five Dynasties, From, Fuzhou, Hengshan County, Kizil, Liu Dehai, Metropolitan Museum, Mogao Caves, Mural, Musée GuimetModern, Northern Wei, Painted, Persian, Qing
related to history · 24
Pipa → According, AD, China, Chinese, Dictionary, Han, Han Chinese Princess Liu, Hu, John Myers, Laurence Picken, Liu Xi, Liu Xi's Eastern Han, Modern, Names, Persian, Qin, Shigeo Kishibe, Tang, The, There
related to In Chinese literature · 24
Pipa → Anjie, Autumn, Bai Juyi, China, Early, Fu Xuan, Han, Kazakhstan, Liu Xijun, Ma Zhiyuan's, Mongolia, Music Conservatory Miscellany Duan, Ode, Palace, Song, Tang, The, There, Wang Zhaojun, Wusun
related to Use in other genres · 22
Pipa → Aqueous Transmission, Australian, Björk's, Blood, California-based, Cold Fairyland, Djang San, French, Incubus, Kartika, Lin Di, Mark Kelson, Mike Einziger, Min Xiaofen, See Who You Are, Steve Vai, The, The Eternal, The Shanghai, Volta
related to Schools · 15
Pipa → China, Each, In, In Nanguan, Jiangnan, Nanguan, Northern, Qing, Sichuan, Southern, Suzhou, Teochew, There, Zhejiang, Zhili

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dynasty music chinese instrument also early may playing tang century players played china used pieces instruments one schools liu however

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PipaClassificationNecked bowl lutes1.00infobox
PipaClassificationString instruments1.00infobox
Pipais atremolo produced by the lunzhi0.90text
Laurence Pickeninstance ofModern researchers0.80text
Shigeo Kishibeinstance ofModern researchers0.80text
and John Myers suggested a non-Chinese origin.The earliest mention of pipa in Chinese texts appeared late in the Han dynasty around the 2nd century ADinstance ofModern researchers0.80text
daquinstance ofIt may be played as a solo instrument or as part of the imperial orchestra for use in productions0.80text
Koreainstance ofand these instruments were introduced into Japan during the Tang dynasty as well as into other regions0.80text
Vietnaminstance ofand these instruments were introduced into Japan during the Tang dynasty as well as into other regions0.80text
the pipa in the southern genre of nanguan/nanyininstance ofalthough it is still used in some regional styles0.80text
nanguan the pipa is still held guitar fashion.During the 1950sinstance ofalthough in some regional genres0.80text
the use of metal strings in place of the traditional silk ones also resulted in a change in the sound of the pipa which became brighterinstance ofalthough in some regional genres0.80text

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