MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS of China Hu-Chin-Pi-pa Sheng

Description: Hu-Ch'in and Bow, Sheng, San-Hsien, P'i-P'a Another Fine Quality Print from Martin2001 Print Specifics: Type of print: Lithograph - Original antique printYear of printing: 1888 Publisher: Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). SLightly 'wavy' along the left side. Dimensions: 11 x 15 inches, (27.5 x 38 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 1 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. This is a large print, requiring extra protective boards, thus increasing the weight and the resulting postage. Original Narrative: WE learn from Mr. J. A. Van Aalst's comprehensivetreatise on Chinese Music, published, it may at first sight appear somewhat oddly, by the Imperial Maritime Customs (Shanghai , 1884), that the Hu-ch'in , the left-hand figure in the Plate, is one of the most popular musical instruments in Peking. The strings, four in number, are of silk, and are tuned in pairs a fifth apart. The name for the next instrument, the reed mouth-organ, Shêng, sounds like " shung," rhyming with " sung." From this ancient instrument have come the modern popular developments of the " freereed " organ, first applied about 1780, at the instance of Professor Kratzenstein, to organ reed-stops by a Copenhagen organ-builder named Kirsnick, who had settled at St. Petersburg, an invention soon afterwards carried to Germany by the celebrated Abbé Vogler. The Shêng is a gourd with its top cut off and a flat cover cemented upon it. Mr. N. B. Dennys, in his valuable notes on Chinese Musical Instruments read before the North China Branch of the Asiatic Society, 21st October, 1873, gives the name of the three-stringed instrument in the drawing, with a long neck like a tamboura, as San-hsien , with which Mr. Van Aalst agrees. The Peking musicians called it Sien-tzê (pronounced like Shen-zy). Like the Japanese Siamisen the San-hsien has no frets. The P'i-pa, according to Dennys and Van Aalst, or Balloon Guitar (the Peking musicians called it Phi-pe) , has a body nearly a foot in diameter, from which it takes its English name, and four strings played usually with the fingers and tuned as fourth , fifth , and octave from the lowest note. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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