When playing Dabia, the headstock is placed obliquely to the left in front of the chest. It has a low volume and a bright and soft tone. There are various tuning methods due to different playing tunes. The melody is played with the middle two strings, and the outer two strings are complemented by harmony. Dabbia is mostly used for solo or folk song and dance (such as pipa danc...

The Dabia consists of a sound box, a headstock, a stem, a peg, a bridge and strings. The whole body is made of a single piece of wood, with a triangular or pear-shaped sound groove, with a handle, a slightly curved neck, and four poles at the neck end. It is tied with four strings of the same thickness and four gut strings. sound box It is trapezoidal, oval or triangular, the...