View Pipa Chinese String Instrument Background. Buy stringed instrument professional red rosewood polished pipa chinese guitar / lute for performance free case and adhesive tape for nails: Some popular ancient names included liuyeqin and tu pipa.
Original chinese pipa/liuqin is an indispensable instrument in the chinese orchestra.
It was a very popular instrument in the tang era, with four frets and four silk strings played with a plectrum. The modern pipa has 29 or 31 frets, 6 on the neck and the rest on the body of the instrument. Sometimes called the chinese lute, the another chinese 4 string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The konghou is an ancient chinese, plucked string instrument.
