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From: avery@netcom.COM (Avery Colter)
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Subject: Re: Chinese Ch`in Piece ??? (What the heck is that?)
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Date: 11 Feb 91 07:33:29 GMT
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avery@netcom.COM (Avery Colter) writes:

>The file is an SHK archive of Plum Flowers, a piece for the 
>Ch`in. The Ch`in is a very old, long-bearded ancestor of the koto
>which is still played widely in China.

>If you don't know what a koto is, there's no hope for you. <grin>

For the hopeless, the koto is the Japanese bridged long zither.
The Ch`in is bridgeless and played differently, but still a long
zither, and so much of the same relaxing effect can be drawn from either.

Also, the song is Soundsmith.

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