I was interested in finding more information on the Chinese instruments (especially the stringed) because they all looked familiar to me even though I haven't really been introduced to them before. I remember seeing something that looked like the Zheng while looking through a magazine of American folk music. The instrument was called the dulcimer, there are two different types, the hammer dulcimer and the Appalachian dulcimer.
APPALACHIAN DULCIMER
CHINESE GUQIN
It's really neat to see how similar the Appalachian dulcimer and the guqin are.
HAMMERED DULCIMER
CHINESE YANG QIN
Both of these instruments are the hammered dulcimer. The hammered dulcimer originated in Central Asia and somehow found it's way over to America. America along with many other countries such as India, South West Asia, China, South East Asia, Central Europe and many other European countries has it's own version of the hammered dulcimer.
Wow, what a lovely catalogue of "things you can do with a dulcimer." I'll have to remember this.
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