BEIJING, May 15 (Xinhua) -- Holding two bamboo mallets, one in each hand, and alternately hitting the strings on a trapezoid-shaped wooden instrument, Liu Yuening is intoxicated with the reverberating ...

Liu Yuening, a professor with the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM, in Beijing), is director of both the Office of the Music Confucius Institute and the Center for International Chinese Language ...

For the first time, the Chinese dulcimer yangqin and the Indian dulcimer santoor were played together with a symphony orchestra at a recent concert in Beijing titled East Meets East. "I hope we can ...

BEIJING, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- The 3rd International Dulcimer Music Festival has opened in Beijing, inviting dulcimer artists from home and abroad to perform and exchange views on the instrument. More ...

Singer-songwriter Zhang Zhi performs during an online event, along with Jin Mei, who plays the yangqin (a hammered dulcimer), and Mongolian ethnic musician Gawa, who plays the morin khuur (the ...

The Free Online Dictionary writes that a dulcimer, also called the Appalachian dulcimer and the mountain dulcimer, is, “A narrow, often hourglass-shaped stringed instrument having three or four ...

Chinese yangqin player Liu Yuening (top) collaborates with Indian santoor player Tarun Bhattacharya (below left) and tabla player Vijay Ghate at the East Meets East concert in Beijing. Photos provided ...