Musical Instruments from China (Part III)

Hey guys :) we are now on introducing China musical instruments part 3!
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Here we go!

Alright, today we going to take a look on musical instruments in the categories of stone, clay and gourd (hope you guys still remember we have 8 categories which are silk, bamboo, wood, stone, metal, clay, gourd and hide)

Stone (石)

The "stone" category comprises various forms of stone chimes.

Bianqing (simplified Chinese: 编磬; traditional Chinese: 編磬; pinyin: biānqìng) – a rack of stone tablets that are hung by ropes from a wooden frame and struck using a mallet

Sounding stone or Qing (磬)


 

Clay (土)

Fou (Chinese: 缶; pinyin: fǒu) – clay pot played as a percussion instrument

Gourd (匏)

Sheng (Chinese: 笙; pinyin: shēng) – free reed mouth organ consisting of varying number of bamboo pipes inserted into a metal (formerly gourd or hardwood) chamber with finger holes
Baosheng (抱笙) – larger version of the Sheng

Hulusi (simplified Chinese: 葫芦丝; traditional Chinese: 葫蘆絲; pinyin: húlúsī) – free-reed wind instrument with three bamboo pipes which pass through a gourd wind chest; one pipe has finger holes and the other two are drone pipes; used primarily in Yunnan province

Hulusheng (simplified Chinese: 葫芦笙; traditional Chinese: 葫蘆笙; pinyin: húlúshēng) – free-reed mouth organ with a gourd wind chest; used primarily in Yunnan province