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Dà pái shēng / Dàpáishēng (-)

original: 大排笙

➺ remark(s) below

type of modern "reformed" Shēng with a kind of keyboard

Identical types: 3

Literal translation: 大: "big/large"; 排: "row/line"; 笙: "mouth organ"; Blench describes it as "a large floor-standing organ-like instrument"; NB: ➺ Bào shēng.


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.7.

Dictionaries, &c.

汉英词典 (Hàn Yīng cídiǎn) / A Chinese-English dictionary. 北京 [Běijīng], 1985, p.124 (大 ➀), 506 (排 ➁) & 613).