Ideas & Concepts

Musical Ideas & Techniques

How is the sound produced, and how is pitch organised? Entries cover playing techniques and the concepts behind them.

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Notes produced when the left hand presses a guqin string down onto the soundboard, shortening the vibrating length and changing the pitch.

Bell-like notes produced on the guqin by lightly touching a string at a nodal point while the right hand plucks it.

A five-note scale that much traditional Chinese music is built on, whose tones are named gong, shang, jue, zhi and yu.

Notes produced on the guqin by plucking a string that the left hand does not stop, giving the instrument's deep, resonant low register.