Cheng
French transliteration; Also a main entry in »Encyclopædia britannica«, 11th ed. (1910); According to the author of the article (K.S. [Kathleen Schlesinger]) "the cheng resembles a tea-pot filled with bamboo pipes of graduated lengths"; According to Mahillon, "Four of the pipes of the cheng have never had a reed, their only purpose is to contribute to the symmetry of its shape."; NB¹: Curiously, François-Joseph Fétis refers to it as a "small organ"; NB²: Stainer refers to it, more specifically, as "the cheng or Chinese organ"; NB³: ➺ Tscheng.
MMA: The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue of the Crosby Brown collection of musical instruments of all nations, prepared under the direction, and issued under the authorization of the donor, I-III. New York, 1903-1914. Vol. II: Asia (1903), p.24.
Moule, Arthur C.: A list of the musical and other sound-producing instruments of the Chinese [Shanghai, 1908, Jl. of the north China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 39]. Preface by Harrison Ryker. Buren, 1989 [facsimile], p.89.
Schlesinger, Kathleen: Cheng. In: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th edition, New York, 1910 – 1911 – 1922, VI (1910), p.77 (➺ Cheng).
Fétis, François-Joseph: Histoire générale de la musique depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu’à nos jours, 1 & 2. Paris, 1869, p.57.
Mahillon, Victor-Charles: Catalogue descriptif et analytique du Musée instrumental du Conservatoire royal de Musique, I-V. Gand, 1893-1912, p.31, 50, 53, 178. 179.
Stainer, John: The music of the Bible. With an account of the development of modern musical instruments from ancient types. London, s.a. [1879], p.113 [2x], 114 [3x].