Pipa
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pipa-204-4180496
title:
Pipa
text:
The pipa, pípá, or p'i-p'a is a traditional Chinese musical instrument belonging to the plucked category of instruments. Sometimes called the "Chinese lute", the instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to 31. Another Chinese four-string plucked lute is the liuqin, which looks like a smaller version of the pipa. The pear-shaped instrument may have existed in China as early as the Han dynasty, and although historically the term pipa was once used to
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Chinese plucked lute
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipa
date created:
2003-11-04T15:05:13Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T21:37:55Z
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