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The guan (管; pinyin: guǎn; literally "pipe" or "tube") is a Chinese double reed wind instrument. Unlike instruments in the shawm family such as the Western oboe or Chinese suona, the guan has a cylindrical bore, giving it a clarinet-like tone. It was an important leading melodic instrument in the court and ritual music of ancient China and is still popular in wind band music of northern China, as well as in some other Chinese regions. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (223x791, 57 KB) Licensing I, the creator of this work, hereby grant the permission to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1. ...
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Hanyu Pinyin (Simplified Chinese: 汉è¯æ‹¼éŸ³; Traditional Chinese: 漢語拼音; Hanyu Pinyin: , lit. ...
A double reed is a type of reed by means of which the sound is originated in various wind instruments. ...
Woman playing a bass shawm, (Tobias Stimmer ca. ...
Modern Oboe The oboe is a double reed musical instrument of the woodwind family. ...
The suona (å—©å¶, also called the laba å–‡å or haidi) is a Han Chinese shawm, developed from the Central Asian surnay. ...
In ancient times the instrument was called bili (traditional: 篳篥; simplified: 筚篥), and this term is still used as a synonym for the guan in northern China. In northern China, the guan is commonly known as guanzi (管子), and is made of hardwood. In Cantonese music, the guan is known as houguan and is made of bamboo. The houguan is made in three sizes. Cantonese music or Guangdong Music is a style of traditional Chinese instrumental music from Guangzhou and surrounding areas. ...
The guan is quite difficult to play, largely due to the difficulty of controlling the embouchure; a Chinese saying states that "the sheng (mouth organ) takes 100 days to learn, but the guan takes 1,000 days to learn." The embouchure is the shaping of the lips to the mouthpiece of a wind instrument. ...
The Chinese sheng (Chinese: 笙, Pinyin shēng) is a mouth-blown free reed instrument (the first) consisting essentially of vertical tubes, in the Chinese orchestra. ...
The guan is related to the Korean piri and Japanese hichiriki, both of which derive from the Chinese instrument. The piri (피리) is a Korean double reed instrument, used in both the folk and classical (court) music of Korea. ...
The hichiriki (Japanese: 篳篥) is a double reed instrument of Japanese gagaku music. ...
In the 20th century, a larger, modernized version of the guan featuring metal keys was developed in China; it is used primarily in large orchestras of traditional instruments.
External links
Video - Houguan video from The Musical Instruments E-book
Listening - Guanzi audio (click headphones to listen to individual tracks)
Audio Sample Image File history File links Si_Shang_Xiang-Guanzi_Tu_Chunxi. ...
The Chinese sheng (Chinese: 笙, Pinyin shēng) is a mouth-blown free reed instrument (the first) consisting essentially of vertical tubes, in the Chinese orchestra. ...
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