Describe Abing’s 1950 recording

What will be an ideal response?


• In 1950 Chinese musicologists recorded Abing playing three solos on the pipa (a four-stringed pear-shaped lute) and three solos on the erhu (a two-stringed fiddle). The music was apparently from his street repertory.

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