A nagging question has been bothering me for some time now: have we, the guitar-buying public, lost sight of the joy of making music on a rudimentary, inexpensive stringed instrument?

我一直搞不清楚一件事情：我们这些吉他消费者是否已经失去了从最简单廉价的乐器中获得快乐的能力？

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As a plucked stringed musical instrument, Pipa music is of melody character and for expresses the melody lines by dots in performance.

琵琶音乐具有旋律性的特点，作为一种弹拨乐器，琵琶在演奏中旋律线的表述是以“点”来完成的。

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The school specializes in Arabic instruments such as the kanoun, a triangular stringed instrument a little like a horizontal harp, and the oud, a pear-shaped stringed instrument similar to a lute, and also teaches Western classical instruments and music theory.

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There are several performance stages for Chinese opera and music, which have so far included concerts featuring the guqin, a stringed instrument favored by Confucius.

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