"Ukelin" is one of the more common trade names of a type of stringed musical instrument marketed from the early 1920s until about 1965. Ukelins combine two sets of strings, one group of sixteen ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have ... explore how musicians play the eight different types of instrument, and their history.

This is the sixth in a 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 ...

With a ‘sweetened’ tuning each string is slightly flat or sharp to account for the intonation of that particular instrument.