Well, you are only about a millennium behind the times. But never fear. Opportunities to hear this ancient Chinese two-stringed instrument known for it’s plaintive humanlike tone are on the upswing. A ...

The Smithsonian Folklife Festival is an experience of the senses, an invitation to see, taste, and smell. But for me, more than anything else, the Festival is an auditory experience, with its ...

The modern erhu developed from a musical instrument called xiqin, which was played by many ethnic minorities during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), musicians began to ...

Photo taken on May 13, 2019 shows the bow and the strings of an Erhu in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a ...

Performing recently in a Shanghai park, a musician gingerly glides his bow across the strings of his erhu before tightening them to bring the instrument back into tune. Soon he is immersed in the ...

This is the sixth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument ...

Allison Hernandez is modest and soft spoken, but when she picks up the erhu, she slips into another world. With a slight smile on her face and closed eyes, she moves with the music, as she draws her ...

What do you do with a hyperactive 7-year-old boy? Signing him up for lessons on an ancient Chinese musical instrument probably isn't the first thing to come to mind. Benjamin Lee, 16, of Byron, will ...

Here’s an utterly virtuosic version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, on an instrument you’ve almost certainly never heard play it. The Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin, only ...

An Erhu is pictured in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, May 13, 2019. Erhu, sometimes known as the Chinese violin or Chinese two-stringed fiddle, is a Chinese traditional two-stringed bowed ...