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Hé shēng / Héshēng (-)

original: 和笙

➺ remark(s) below

Mouth organ (Southeast Asia)

Identical types: 20
Shēng

Literal translation: "gentle/mild", or "harmonious" (According to Blench: "harmony"); A small Shēng type encountered in "oracle bone" inscriptions dating from the 15th century BC; NB¹: According to Zhāng, "in ancient times the name for the small Shēng"; NB²: ➺ Cháo, , and Hwa (Korea).


Sources

Blench, Roger: The history and distribution of the free-reed mouth-organ in SE Asia (presented at the 14th EurASEAA meeting, Dublin, September 2012 (Draft submitted for proceedings, 2012), p.5-6.

Thrasher, Alan R.: Sheng. In: The Garland encyclopedia of world music (7): East Asia (ed. 2002).

张新蕾 (Zhāng Xīnlěi): 关于键笙 [Guānyú jiànshēng; About the Jiànshēng], YouTube, [2017].

ws (Dictionaries)

Web

YouTube (Zhāng [NB: ➺ info, upper right: 掌上键笙 [Zhǎngshàng jiàn shēng], &c. ...more: Description]).

Dictionaries, &c.

汉英词典 (Hàn Yīng cídiǎn) / A Chinese-English dictionary. 北京 [Běijīng], 1985, p.274 (和 ➀, ➁).