Shen Cheng, Shanghai Orchestra of Traditional Chinese Music - A Paizi tune of Shanxi opera (Track 6)

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Chinese musical instruments are considered an inseparable part of Chinese culture as well as rare and precious art pieces in the world's treasury of music. Of long standing and wellestablished, Chinese musical instruments take on fine shapes and display a touch of quaintness. There is a great variety of them, and each one, with its unique quality, produces a beautiful and attractive tone savouring of orientalism.

As early as in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties (3000 B.C.), there appeared . imperial court orchestras with instruments of many kinds. Today, China's inventory list of musical instruments from different nationalities numbers up to 300. For your entertainment and appreciation, we now offer cassettes of famous musical pieces played on over 20 of the most common
instruments by the most talented performing ·artists of China. You will even hear the xun, a pear-shape pottery, instrument and the oldest of China's musical instruments which first appeared in 6700 B.C., and in the instrumental ensembles, the percussion instruments present themselves charmingly.