Players Zhang Geping (L) and Zhao Xiaotong practice playing the pipa at Lanzhou traditional orchestra in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 13, 2019. Pipa, a pear-shaped stringed ...

China's national first-class musician Wu Yuxia performs pipa at a concert Photo: Courtesy of Wu Yuxia Once a little girl watching her teachers craft pipa fingernails with electric soldering irons and ...

Wu Yuxia has played thepipa for about 50 years. Both of them have been learning the pipa with Wu since they were very young. Fan is now studying at the China Conservatory to be a professional pipa ...

One school of thought has it that classical music is facing tough times as it negotiates a perfect storm of changing social, cultural, educational, economic and digital forces. But Wu Man doesn’t ...

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.

You're hearing Min Xiao-Fen, one of the world's greatest virtuosos, playing the pipa. It's a pear-shaped, guitar-like instrument from China with a history that goes back thousands of years. Min's ...

Wu Yuxia has played thepipa for about 50 years. Photos provided to China Daily Chinese pipa player Wu Yuxia never says "no" to educational performances and projects since she believes that spreading ...

Chinese pipa player Wu Yuxia never says "no" to educational performances and projects since she believes that spreading the word about the four-stringed lute, a Chinese musical instrument with more ...