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Chinese Music: Chinese music CD, Chinese Song, Chinese Folk Song, Chinese music instrument including Erhu (Er Hu), Dizi (Di zi), bamboo flute, Sheng, Pipa (Pi pa). Chinese Music: Chinese music CD, Chinese Song, Chinese Folk Song, Chinese music instrument including Erhu (Er Hu), Dizi (Di zi), bamboo flute, Sheng, Pipa (Pi pa). Chinese Music: Chinese music CD, Chinese Song, Chinese Folk Song, Chinese music instrument including Erhu (Er Hu), Dizi (Di zi), bamboo flute, Sheng, Pipa (Pi pa). Chinese Music: Chinese music CD, Chinese Song, Chinese Folk Song, Chinese music instrument including Erhu (Er Hu), Dizi (Di zi), bamboo flute, Sheng, Pipa (Pi pa).

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SanXian
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Product #: MA-01-0010
Producer: China
List price: ~~$260.00~~	Our Price: $230.00

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39.5 inches
Sanxian (Three -string Lute/Banjo)
(san: three; xian: string)
The name appears popularly as Xianzi, in which zi is a diminutive suffix. Its ancestor is said to be plucked stringed instrument xiantao (a type from a rattle drum), commonly seen among the ancient people. The modern type has a resonator of padauk or red sandal, covered on both sides with python skin. Its fretless neck functions as its fingerboard. The strings are nylon coiled steel wires. Performers pluck with fingernails, generally without any plectrum. It is solid and sonorous in tone quality. Sanxian has a structure of a wooden drum covered with a snake skin, and an extended long and smooth finger board. It has a distinctive rich and harmonious sound with great volume and wide range. When it is played at the low pitch, it sounds like an old man humming a tune; when it is played at the high putch, it sounds like a young girl singing a song.

Two types can be distinguished. The smaller, with a range of two and a half octaves, is found in the Yangtzi valleys of southeast China. Its other name is quxian (theatre string) for its accompaniment to kunqu opera and tanci narrative song.

The larger, with a range of three octaves, is used to accompany dagu and other northern singing narratives. That explains the origin of its other name "narrative string" (shuxian). Now it is also a solo instrument and appears in ensembles or other music as well.

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