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pipaor p'i-p'aShort-necked Chinese lute. It has a pear-shaped body and a fretted fingerboard, and the silk strings are plucked with the fingernails. It is prominent in the opera orchestra and as an ensemble, solo, and accompanying instrument. The Japanese biwa is a similar instrument. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| These are the Aruga Branca Issehara 2006 and the Aruga Branca Pipa 2003. Framing Terrorism, Pipa Norris, Montague Kern and Marion Just (eds. color) Visiting Chinese student Zhiyi Ren plays a stringed instrument from her homeland called a pipa during a dinner at the Jewish Community Center in Sherman Oaks. |
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