Musical instrumet and chinese people

[moon88]

Dear cecil,
I read somewhere that chinese people give a lot of importance to musical instrument especially violin. Is it true. Thanks.

[Cecil Lee]

Dear Anon,
1. In my opinion, this may not be necessary true. (If we only look at the `western violin').
2. The Chinese have many different `wind instruments' and in my opinion, the violin is more a `western' instruments.
There are `Chinese violins' and need not be in the shape of the western violin or the material used.
The Chinese also have a keyboard type wind instrument `Qin' with many strings and they use their fingers to play on. Much like a guitar but flat and more strings parallel to each other. Others include `Pipa' instruments. There are quite alot of CDs on music played on these instruments.
Others include, instruments with snake skins and animaal hairs (strings).
Warmest Regards,
Cecil

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On 4/13/00 1:44:00 PM, Anonymous wrote:
Dear cecil,
I read somewhere that chinese
people give a lot of
importance to musical
instrument especially violin.
Is it true. Thanks.