Music Facts

To celebrate the new Chinese Year coming, the Year of the Goat (Goat pronounced as “Yang” in Chinese), we have collected 5 interesting facts about the Yangqin (揚琴) to wish everyone happy holidays from the Harmony Music Family.


1) Yangqin (揚琴) is introduced into China during the Ming Dynasty, the word Yang (揚) is rooted from Yang (洋), which can reference the word “foreign”.


2) Yangqin is originally developed from instruments with various names, including the Psaltery and the Dulcimer. The Yangqin we know today has gone through 400 years of improvement and modification.


3)  The “8 Major Yangqin...