Yangqin:A King of Strings and Tunes

"It is widely recognized that the piano is a vari-ant instrument of Chinas yangqin,one major difference being that the hammers and strings of the piano are placed inside the instrument body instead of outside like the yangqin,"said the Minzu University professor Xu Xuedong,a yangqin virtuoso and composer."Consequently,the yangqin is also known as the 'Chinese piano."