Chinese Instruments 2.3
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Publisher Description
Chinese musical instruments includes 24 Chinese instruments, and an introduction to Chinese music, with 24 pieces of Chinese music.
Chinese musical instruments are very interesting and have a very long history. This app try to present these Chinese instruments to non-Chinese player. There is a Chinese Version for the Chinese people.
Chinese Music has been made since the dawn of Chinese civilization with documents and artifacts providing evidence of a well-developed musical culture as early as the Zhou Dynasty (1122BC to 256 BC). Today, the music continues a rich traditional heritage in one aspect, while emerging into a more contemporary form at the same time.
Traditional music in China is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums. The scale is pentatonic. Dizi and qin are among the oldest known musical instruments from China; instruments are traditionally divided into categories based on their material of composition: animal skins, gourd, bamboo, wood, silk, earth/clay, metal, and stone. Chinese orchestras traditionally consist of bowed strings, woodwinds, plucked strings and percussion.
This app includes 24 Chinese instruments, which fall into four categories:
Wind instruments include dizi, xiao, sheng, suona, guan and xun etc.
Plucked instruments include pipa, zheng, ruan, liuqin, sanxian and qin etc.
Bowed instruments include erhu, gaohu, banhu, zhonghu, gehu and matouqin etc.
Percussion instruments include dagu, bangu, bo, lou, bianzhong and yangqin etc.
Each instrument has a high resolution picture, a description text file and a famous representative music. There are total 25 pieces of Chinese music, total time play exceed two hours.
There is also a Music Player to play the music, if you want to listen to the music only.
Beside music, there are two YouTube Video links to each instrument.
This free version is the same with the paid version, except iAd advertisements added.
Nov 18, 2017
Version 2.3
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Update for iOS 11 and iPhone X.
About Chinese Instruments
Chinese Instruments is a free app for iOS published in the Audio File Players list of apps, part of Audio & Multimedia.
The company that develops Chinese Instruments is Hon Fai Yiu. The latest version released by its developer is 2.3.
To install Chinese Instruments on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2017-11-18 and was downloaded 6 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Chinese Instruments as malware if the download link is broken.
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- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
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