“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’s” theme music is typified by the sounds of a melancholy stringed instrument. Without hearing it before, you might think the music was a special type of ...

Father-and-son erhu players Wang Guotong and Ray Wong hope their latest concert will help change perceptions of the Chinese stringed instrument.

Birds Chirping in the Mountains, composed by Liu Tianhua, and Hua Yanjun's classic Reflection of the Moon on Water are signature pieces of his father, erhu master Wang Guotong.

Colin Huehns, The Shaanxi Qinpai Erhu Tradition. Re-invention and Re-invigoration of a Folk Tradition, The World of Music, Vol. 42, No. 3, Local Musical Traditions in the Globalization Process (2000), ...

A musical duo from UBC is bringing a contemporary spin to the classic combination of piano and erhu, a Chinese stringed instrument.

When studying the modern history of erhu, a two-stringed Chinese musical instrument, Wuxi in Jiangsu province is a place that researchers can't ignore. Meicun, an ancient town located in the Wuxi ...

Here’s an utterly virtuosic version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, on an instrument you’ve almost certainly never heard play it.

Well, you are only about a millennium behind the times. But never fear. Opportunities to hear this ancient Chinese two-stringed instrument known for it’s plaintive humanlike tone are on the ...

It sounds almost like a violin, but not quite. The erhu is a traditional Chinese two-string instrument, played with a bow. Virtuoso soloist Ma Xiaohui demonstrates how to finesse music out of it.

Here’s an utterly virtuosic version of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee, on an instrument you’ve almost certainly never heard play it.