The tiqin (Chinese: 提琴; pinyin: tíqín) is a name applied to several two-stringed Chinese bowed string instruments in the huqin family of instruments. Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most common Standard Mandarin Romanization system in use Huqin ( 胡琴; Pinyin: húqín are a family of bowed String instruments used in Chinese music.
There are several types of tiqin:
- The tiqin used for kunqu opera
- The tiqin used for Cantonese music
- The tiqin used for Chaozhou music
- The tiqin used in Fujian and Taiwan
Additionally, the term tiqin is used in Chinese as a generic term referring to Western bowed string instruments of the violin family:
- Xiao tiqin (小提琴) = violin
- Zhong tiqin (中提琴) = viola
- Da tiqin (大提琴) = cello
- Diyin tiqin (低音提琴) = double bass
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Kunqu ( 崑[[wiktionary 曲|曲]] Pinyin: Kūnqǔ Wade-Giles: k'un-ch'ü also known as Kunju, Kun opera or Kunqu Opera Guangdong music, also known as Cantonese music (广东音乐 Guǎngdōng yīnyuè) is a style of traditional Chinese instrumental music from Guangzhou Fujian is a Chinese province. Traditional music include a variety of folk and classical styles Taiwan is densely-populated and culturally diverse, including a majority of Han Chinese (including the Holo and Hakka peoples and significant The Violin family of Musical instruments was developed in Italy in the Sixteenth century. The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family, The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ The double bass is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed String instrument used in the modern symphony orchestra. Huqin ( 胡琴; Pinyin: húqín are a family of bowed String instruments used in Chinese music. The erhu ( also called nanhu ( 南[[wikt 胡|胡]] "southern fiddle" and sometimes known in the West as the "ChineseDapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic