When playing the qiang, use a seated position. Place the zong on the qin stand or table, hold a qin bamboo in each hand and strike the strings on both sides of the qin horse to make sounds.
Clang's range G-a3, up to four octaves. Common techniques include vibrato, plucked strings, arpeggios, chords and octaves, etc. The vibrato is different from the mainland dulcimer.
Qiang can...
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It originated from the "Silk Road" that was directly introduced to Xinjiang, which should have been earlier than the end of the Ming Dynasty, and then spread to Hami, eastern Xinjiang at the end of the 18th century.
The shape is the same as that of the inland dulcimer, consisting of a resonance box, a mountain pass, a peg, a bridge pin, a bridge, a string and a bamboo.
sound bo...
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