箜篌 Konghou - an ancient Chinese harp：平湖秋月

[reygood1]

Similar to guzheng.

[Temanilove]

this is just a western harp with chinese decorations onli. i thought the ancient one is smaller with lesser strings? then u like hold it or smth.

[shilinbailei]

@Temanilove i think this was invented in the 1950s or 60s, following the western harp, you are right. but there are some essential changes in the design to make sure that the harp can satisify the special performing skills of ancient ones. So a western harpist can definitely play this instrument but cannot express this kind of music.

[grazieadio99]

太美了,很好聽

優美動人的音樂

[Xhokky]

this instrument is only like 20 years old -_-

[Lehabim]

@Xhokky  Actually I believe this instrument was around before but died out in the Ming Dynasty and has only recently been revived again.

[gariadara]

@Xhokky this modern form is very young indeed, it was revived in the 20th century, but it is a revival of the ancient konghou that went extinct in the Ming Dynasty. However, this instrument does not resemble the ancient konghou but more the western harp. The konghou looked more like the japanese kugo (which is also only recently revived, but at least they tried to stick to the original form more so than the chinese revivalists).

[killergirls]

Beautiful! What are the differences with his and a normal western Harp? sounds the same to me.

[cel0702]

@killergirls the strings are folded over so there are actually two sides to the instrument, which allows for more complex playing :)

[wingplum]

Thank you Bossa for the rare konghou music.

[markohu]

thanks a lot for this beautiful music is the first time I hear the konghou but is amazing.

from Italy

[Tokykynay]

Super Interpretation......Thank you Bossa

[dbadagna]

It's great to have a video of konghou on YouTube--so rare.

[pranhu]

there are a website that you could buy the Konghou so cheap. it s only 1999$. get it for your new year gift. it has 36 string . cross strung strings. i thought about buy one of them for my self.

[cernacerna]

@pranhu, ok, instruments are usually very expensive but call 2000 $ a cheap price, well.... then you're quite lucky!

[PedroGron77]

Fantastic music, seems to come from heaven :-)

Peter

[LadyInDaHouse88]

sooo beautiful!!

[vincent0324]

thanks for uploading the konghou video!!!

Bravo!

[pranhu]

i want to buy one of these instruments

[nivsha]

Wonderful! Thank you.

[univers11]

Mer

veilleux!!!beautifull!!merci..­.

[pelepeng]

finally we have konghou on youtube - thank you bossa!

[HorstRolande]

Your Video´s are really awesome:)