Two years ago, i tried to learn playing GuZheng, an ancient Chinese instrument. In ancient times, GuZheng is called Zheng. After the western instruments came into China about hundreds of years ago, we gave it with a prefix "Gu", a Chinese word that means old, ancient or traditional. I like this instrument, both for its appearance and vocality. It looks similar to another Chinese traditional instrument called GuQin, but a little larger, and have more strings. GuZheng have 21 strings, divided into 5 ranges, called "treble", "high", "alto", "low", "bass", each with 5 strings except that "bass" has only one string. In general there are 7 basic syllable in modern music theory, while 5 in ancient Chinese musical system. As a matter of fact, GuZheng players are able to make another 2 syllables by pressing the adjacent strings. In contrast to GuQin, each string of GuZheng lies on a bridge. Usually players use their right fingers to pluck the string on the right side, and left fingers to press it on the left side. In my opinion, this design makes its vocality to be characteristic and distinctive.

Two years ago, I tried to learn to play the GuZheng, an ancient Chinese instrument. In ancient times, the GuZheng was called Zheng. After western instruments came into China a few hundred years ago, we added the prefix "Gu", a Chinese word that means old, ancient or traditional. I like this instrument, both for its appearance and sound. It looks similar to another Chinese traditional instrument called GuQin, but it is a little larger, and has more strings. The GuZheng has 21 strings, divided into 5 ranges: treble, high, alto, low, and bass. Each range has 5 strings except that bass has only one string. In general there are 7 basic pitches in modern music theory; 5 in the ancient Chinese musical system. GuZheng players are able to create two additional pitches by pressing the adjacent strings. In contrast to the GuQin, each string of the GuZheng lies on a bridge. Players usually use the fingers of their right hand to pluck the string on the right side, and their left hand to press it on the left side. In my opinion, this design makes the GuZheng's sound characteristic and distinctive.