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Erhu

Objects · Rituals · Traditions

A named two-string fiddle of Chinese narrative and later concert practice. Not a kantele, not a kora, and not a shamisen under a bow.

Chinese tradition

  • Erhu is historically related to Silk.

    Bushell’s music notes seat the erhu among Chinese spiked fiddles with silk (later metal) strings — fiddle speech, not a pipa lute alone.

    from Stephen W. Bushell · Chinese Art, 1904–1906 (2nd ed. 1909)

    historically related to · sourced · documented

sources

  • Chinese Art · Stephen W. Bushell

    Stephen W. Bushell, Chinese Art (V&A handbook, 1904–1906).