Musical instruments of traditional Chinese

Traditional Chinese musical instruments can be played solo, or together in a large orchestra (such as the ancient royal palace) or in groups of small mandarin music. No ancient music ensemble conductor in China, or the use of sheet music during performances. Music usually has memorized by musicians, and then played without the tools, so teamwork is very much needed. But nowadays the score or conductor is required, if the musician is pretty much

Chinese musical instrument is distinguished by:

1. According to Traditional Chinese Musical Instruments How to Wear it

Stringed instrument
China is the erhu fiddle, his use of snake skin as a membrane, using two strings, which is swiped by the bow made of horse tail.
Gaohu is kind to the erhu, only a tone higher.
Gehu is a stringed musical instrument to a low tone, like a cello.
Rebab Banhu is China, with a body made from coconut shells with a wooden board as a membrane.

Stringed instruments
Liuqin is a small stringed instrument shaped like a pear with 4 strings.
Yangqin is this instrument has a lot of strings, how to play by hitting with a bamboo stick as a bat.
Stringed instrument pipe is pear-shaped with 4 or 5 strings.
Ruan is a stringed musical instrument with four strings are round.
Sanxian is a stringed instrument with a body made of snake skin and a long neck, has 3 strings.
Guzheng is a lute with 16-26 strings.
Harp Konghou is China.

2. China Musical Based Sources reads

Wind instrument
Flute dizi is using vibrating membrane.
China is the trumpet suona
Sheng is a musical instrument that uses a metal blade with bamboo tubes as a source of sound.
Xiao shaped like a flute.
Paixiao pipe shaped like a pen.
Gudi is shaped like an ancient flute made of bone

Percussion instruments (percussion)
Paigu shaped like a drum consisting of a set of 4 or more.
Tambour is shaped like a big chin.
Chazi shaped like a cymbal, cengceng.
Luo shaped like Gong.
Muyu shaped like Kecrek made of wood.

3. Functions Based on Musical Instrument China

Aerophone

Dizi-shaped transverse bamboo flute with buzzing membrane
Xiao shaped like a flute which is also called the dongxiao
Shaped like an ancient Chi transverse bamboo flute
Xindi shaped like a modern transverse flute with a total of 21 holes
Koudi shaped like a very small transverse bamboo flute
Suona shaped like a trumpet China

Chordhophone

Yazheng shaped like a sitar is also called yaqin
Konghou China is shaped like a harp.
Guzheng is shaped like a lute with 16-26 strings.
Leiqin shaped like a violin with piano keys
Pipe stringed musical instrument shaped like a pear with a 4 or 5 strings.

Membranophone

Bofu shaped like an ancient drum that is used to set the tempo
Tanggu is shaped like a medium sized barrel drum played with two sticks; also called tonggu or xiaogu
Yaogu shaped like a waist drum
Bajiao gu tambourine eight square shape is used primarily in narrative singing of northern China
Paigu shaped like a drum consisting of a set of 4 or more.

Idiophone

Luo is shaped like a gong
Zhu shaped like a wooden box, played with a bang stick on the inside, used to mark the beginning of music in ancient ceremonial music

Yu shaped like a percussion instrument in the form of a carved wooden tiger with a serrated, used to mark the end of the music
Muyu shaped like a woodblock carved in the shape of fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used in Buddhist chanting
Paiban shaped like a clapper made of several pieces of flat wood.

Metallophone

Dangzi of the small, round, flat, tuned gongs suspended by silk tied with a rope in a circular metal frame mounted on thin wooden handle is also referred to Dangdang. Bianzhong bronze bells hung on a shelf, struck using poles, as set forward Fangxiang metal slabs
Bronze drum, shaped like Luo Gong.