A Chinese lute that requires virtuosic technique to master its intricate and delicate tonality. Let's see Sting try and wrap his fat fingers around this one ... What is it? A kind of Chinese lute.

Chinese born and U.S. based Wu Man has taken the pipa (a traditional Chinese lute) and brought it to concert stages around the world as well as introducing it into Western pop and other music styles.

It’s been more than a dozen years since audiences at the Tucson Winter Chamber Music Festival first heard the ancient Chinese lute the pipa. But at this year’s festival, which kicks off on Sunday, ...

An eighth-century Chinese poet likened the sound of the pipa, the leaf-shaped Chinese lute, to that of pearls falling on a jade plate. That may be accurate, but it's only one of the effects the ...

Wu Yuxia has played thepipa for about 50 years. Photos provided to China Daily Chinese pipa player Wu Yuxia never says "no" to educational performances and projects since she believes that spreading ...

Wu Liangfeng, a popular local musician, singing a Pipa song while playing the Chinese lute, or pipa. It is Dong tradition to pass down these songs to younger generations by singing them to children in ...

Young musicians plucked from the ranks of the Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra (HKCO) have created three adventurous concert programmes for the troupe’s abbreviated new season that starts in October. Pipa ...