Friends of Guqin or Amics del Guqin is a virtual space about the chinese traditional music instrument Guqin, or just Qin.
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The 14th CHIME meeting, on Chinese and East Asian Music, will take place at the Musical Instruments Museum in Brussels from 18 to 22 November 2009.
This cultural tour is the most exciting and promising guqin activitiy round the world. If you are on holidays from July 16th to August 6th, read more...
Another chance to learn qin music directly from the qin master Zeng Chengwei. Prof. Zeng will teach qin from 28th July to 1st August.
To celebrate the publication of the biography of Mme. Tsar Teh-yun and to honour Mme. Tsar's memory, Hong Kong University Press and the Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong will hold a symposium on February 17th.
A custom necktie featuring a qin.
New guqin recordings are very scarce and usually they do not get enough press coverage. This month we have searched for qin related items at CDUniverse, an US based Internet CD and DVD retailer. Those are the items we found, precious pearls of a marvellous treasure.
On September 25th the Spanish translation of Fredric Lieberman's work on the Meian qinpu was released. Book preview available from Google Books !!
The Last of China's Literati is a biography of Tsar Teh-yun. Written by Bell Yung, it has just been published.
DVD focused on Chinese traditional music recorded in 1984 and published by Shanachie. Includes a qin performance by Wu Wenguang.
Our information section is focused on qin handbooks, qin exhibition catalogues, qin history, people like van Gulik, qin tuning, ... Don't miss it!
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