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The Er-hu (Erhu) is one of my favorite instruments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu
Yangqin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangqin
Twelve Girls Band - Carnival (Live)
12 girls band - ceilinjan
12 girls band - the quarter moon is rising
Lisa Gerard - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gerrard

The Er-hu (Erhu) is one of my favorite instruments.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu
Yangqin - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangqin
It's a very cool instrument. Composer/vocalist Lisa Gerrard has used this instrument in some of her performances, which one can see in Dead Can Dance's performance of Rakim from their work Toward the Within posted by Evo at the top of page 24.The trapezoidal yangqin (Simplified Chinese: 扬琴; Traditional Chinese: 揚琴; Pinyin: yángqín) is a Chinese hammered dulcimer originally from the Middle East (Persia (modern-day Iran)). It used to be written with the characters 洋琴 (lit. "foreign zither"), but over time the first character changed to 揚 (also pronounced "yáng"), which means "acclaimed". It is also spelled yang quin or yang ch'in. Hammered dulcimers of various types are now very popular not only in China, but also Eastern Europe, the Middle East, India and Pakistan. The instruments are also sometimes known by the names "santur" and "cymbalom".
The yangqin was traditionally fitted with bronze strings, which gave the instrument a soft timbre. This form of instrument is still occasionally heard today in the hudie qin (蝴蝶琴, lit. "butterfly zither") played in the traditional silk and bamboo genre from the Shanghai region known as Jiangnan sizhu (江南絲竹), as well as in some Cantonese music groups. The Thai and Cambodian khim are nearly identical in their construction, having been introduced to those nations by southern Chinese musicians. Since the 1950s, however, steel alloy strings (in conjunction with copper-wound steel strings for the bass notes) have been used, in order to give the instrument a brighter, and louder tone.
Twelve Girls Band - Carnival (Live)
12 girls band - ceilinjan
12 girls band - the quarter moon is rising
Lisa Gerard - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Gerrard
Cool!Born April 12, 1961 in Melbourne, Lisa Gerrard grew up in the multi-ethnic suburb of Prahran with her Irish immigrant parents, where she was exposed to Greek, Turkish, Italian, Irish and Arab cultures. Her upbringing in this diverse suburb had a large influence on her music, particularly on later Dead Can Dance albums and in her solo and collaborative work.

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