箜篌 Konghou - an ancient Chinese harp：平湖秋月

箜篌介紹：
http://gb.cri.cn/chinaabc/chapter23/chapter230108.htm
（中文）
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konghou
（English）

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 箜篌
• Konghou
• chinese
• music
• harp
• 平湖秋月

[PedroGron77]

Fantastic music, seems to come from heaven :-)

Peter

[pelepeng]

finally we have konghou on youtube - thank you bossa!

[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.

[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.

[cel0702]

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

[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).

[grazieadio99]

太美了,很好聽

優美動人的音樂

[Lehabim]

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

[Xhokky]

this instrument is only like 20 years old -_-

[killergirls]

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