Unir sings while playing the morin khuur, or horse-head fiddle, during a performance. [Photo provided to China Daily] As his fingers run over the strings, we hear a thunderstorm and rain. When he whistles, you hear the wind. Horses run ...
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A Shanghai shopping mall hosted an unusual outdoor concert over the weekend, with western cellos, as well as traditional Mongolian horse-head fiddles, the group "Mongolia Symptoms" provided shoppers with an avant-garde adventure. The ...
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Recording at high altitudes is not something most sound engineers tackle every day, so when Danish producer and engineer Hans Nielsen, of Focus Recording Studios, was asked to record a choir of 500 monks in a Chinese temple that was over ...
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Horse-head fiddle is a bow shaped musical instrument usually used by the Mongolian people, one of the ethnic minorities of China. The musical instrument is named like this because its head is usually carved like the shape of a horse ...
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