May 26, 2021 · 5 Similar to this broader question How do East Asian instruments (Shamisen, pipa, etc.) get their unique sound? Though they a similar in many ways a guitar and a pipa sound very different. …

Nov 8, 2020 · Using Lilypond 2.20 on Ubuntu 20.04. This code: ... %% fingering symbols fngaLong = \finger\markup{\box{\pad-markup #0.2 \override #'(font-name . "pipa") \fontsize #7 "a-"}} ...

Nov 9, 2020 · I'm using Lilypond 2.20 on Ubuntu to engrave scores for the instrument pipa. Slurs with arrow is a very common notation in many east Asian music pieces. It sounds similar to glissando in …

Feb 13, 2018 · Here's a video I was pretty impressed with: (Loving the Red Hot Chilli Pipers) At about the 1 minute mark we hear a bagpiper bend a note upwards by a tone, imita...

I need to play low guitar accompaniment parts (simple bass-note-plus-chord style) but I prefer the narrow neck and short scale length of the mandolin. Is there an instrument (acoustic, not electric)

Jul 7, 2022 · What is the difference between an arpeggio and glissando? Is a glissando just another form of an arpeggio? I still don't exactly understand.

Feb 11, 2015 · My wife's band, which features the erhu, uses music notation like the page shown below. We want to take hand-written scanned/faxed from stained napkins with bad handwriting and two-side …

Jan 18, 2018 · I think the "non-constructible set" concept is actually more confusing than descriptions of what a raga is. As far as I can tell, a raga is a whole group of musical concepts put together to form a …

Mar 13, 2022 · I think this is factually wrong, and the opposite is true. See the other answers and comments. A glissando will be implemented on an instrument with only discrete tones as such, but …

Aug 10, 2023 · Western classical instruments—and most Asian traditional instruments like erhu and pipa—are usually taught mainly by a one-on-one ("master/disciple") structure, with fairly formal …