A Chinese lute that requires virtuosic technique to master its intricate and delicate tonality. Let's see Sting try and wrap his fat fingers around this one ... What is it? A kind of Chinese lute.

Wu Man performs with the Silk Road Ensemble at the Mondavi Center at the University of California in 2011. [Photo by Max Whittaker/China Daily] Pipa player Wu Man moved overseas to promote the Chinese ...

In ancient China, people laid xiantao (a lute-like ancient Chinese musical instrument) with strings to generate music. After a long evolution, the instrument developed into what we call sanxian (three ...

More than 2,000 people played the Chinese lute, or "pipa," together in Jiuzhaigou County in southwest China's Sichuan Province Sunday night, setting a new Guinness World Record for the largest lute ...

More than 2,000 performers on Thursday played Chinese lutes together, setting a World Guinness Record, in Northeast China's Jilin Province. The 2,012-player group, including 1,800 primary students and ...

Cultural expert Tao Min, Chinese Lute performer Liu Lu joined SBS Mandarin Producer Lucy Chen to share their thoughts on the Chinese poem and melodies to the Moon Festival.

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