Ji Wei, a renowned guzheng artist, enhances the traditional ... many Western audiences would ask me if I was playing the koto, a Japanese plucked string instrument," Ji recalled.

A band of koto performers– a traditional Japanese musical instrument – will play at the National Composers Union of Ukraine concert hall. The instrument derives from the Chinese guzheng or qin. It’s ...

Guzheng player Xu Fengxia and koto exponent Miya Masaoka were invited to join for tours in France and America, and with the addition of reedman Larry Ochs (the "O" of the ROVA saxophone quartet, and a ...

Typically made of paulownia wood, the koto is related to the Chinese guzheng and can have 13, 17, 21 or 25 strings. “It is a very versatile instrument, as each string can produce three or four ...

“This instrument, in Chinese, they call ‘guzheng.’ In America, you can call it Chinese zither,” said Alice Kan, who cofounded the Alice Gu-Zheng Ensemble in 2002 with her husband ...

Not far from this historic neighborhood is a beautiful sound the Chinese have created for generations. It comes from an instrument known as the guzheng. "Gu means ancient. Zheng means zither. So, it ...