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Gòngmíng guǎn / Gòngmíngguǎn (-)

original: 共鸣管

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a kind of "bell" on a pipe of a mouth organ

Identical types: 2

Literal translation: 共鸣: "resonance"; 管: "tube/pipe"; Each of the pieces added in recent years [i.e. ca. 2000; ws] to amplify the highest register of the Shēng, in order to correct the instrument’s imbalance, since the volume of the middle to lower tones is usually louder than that of the higher tones.

Kuòyīn guǎn / Kuòyīnguǎn


Sources

Wong, Samuel Shengmiao: Qi’ - An instrumental guide to the Chinese orchestra. Singapore, 2005, p.141.

Dictionaries, &c.

汉英词典 (Hàn Yīng cídiǎn) / A Chinese-English dictionary. 北京 [Běijīng], 1985, p.238 (gòngmíng) & 250.