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- ), is a Chinese transverse flute, usually made of bamboo. It is also ... tissue-like shaving from the inner tube of a bamboo or reed, is made taut ...13 KB (2,031 words) - 09:18, 15 January 2023
- Often used in pairs, cymbals consist of thin, normally round plates ... which is the latinisation of the Greek word grc|κύμβαλον ...15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
- Yejong of Goryeo (1079 - 1122) was the 16th emperor of the Korean ... King Yejong was a great patron of Daoism, preferring its precepts ...18 KB (2,724 words) - 00:57, 17 April 2023
- on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound ... great-uncle's family in the small town of Villars, in Burgundy. There ...13 KB (2,028 words) - 01:30, 16 January 2023
- Chinese art (Chinese: 中國藝術/中国艺术) is art, both ancient ... thumb|right|180px|[[List of traditional Chinese musical instruments|Traditional ...28 KB (4,073 words) - 16:44, 10 December 2023
- A string instrument (or stringed instrument) is a musical instrument ... In the modern orchestra, string instruments can be used as a solo ...26 KB (3,682 words) - 21:00, 26 February 2023
- The Culture of China (Chinese: 中國文化) is home to one of the ... Chinese culture underwent several turning points and renewals throughout ...24 KB (3,727 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- elastic, water-resistant, natural material of commercial importance and for ... in colloquial speech, is the outermost layer of a woody stem, derived from ...16 KB (2,451 words) - 20:36, 23 May 2020
- the modern name for a plucked seven-string Chinese musical instrument of the ... While certain rules of acoustics were followed in the construction ...45 KB (6,609 words) - 01:21, 15 July 2023
- is a government classification for a group of related minorities in China ... Most Western, Chinese, and Yao scholars believe that the Yao became ...21 KB (3,250 words) - 10:13, 22 May 2023
- Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...47 KB (7,194 words) - 19:07, 30 September 2023
- instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that when struck ... Bells are usually cast from bell metal (a type of bronze) for its ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual ... A number of non-harp-like instruments are colloquially referred to ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- Southeast Asia, sometimes abbreviated to SEA, is a subregion of Asia ... The maritime region consists of Brunei, East Timor, Indonesia, Malaysia ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- ; ancient name: 吳) is a city on the lower reaches of the Yangtze ... which followed, aristocrats constructed many of the famous private gardens ...24 KB (3,013 words) - 00:31, 27 February 2023
- Urdu: کشمیر) is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Historically ... Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir, and the Chinese administered region of Aksai ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- ) refers to a town in the Indian state of West Bengal, the headquarters ... back to the mid nineteenth century as part of a British development of the ...33 KB (4,712 words) - 06:27, 15 January 2023
- Traditional Thai art was heavily influenced by Buddhist and Hindu ... In ancient Thailand, as in most parts of Southeast Asia, artists typically ...45 KB (6,630 words) - 15:04, 30 April 2023
- The Toraja (meaning "people of the uplands") are an ethnic ... into rocky cliffs, massive peaked-roof traditional houses known as tongkonan ...36 KB (5,331 words) - 23:49, 9 January 2024
- States, located in the north-central part of the state, near the junction ... Dallas is the main economic center of the 12 county Dallas, Fort Worth ...34 KB (5,022 words) - 18:06, 24 January 2024
