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Kuan (-)

original: 管

Miáo (Shēng miáo / Shēngmiáo)

Spelling [i.e. Wade-Giles transcription; ws] in Sachs and Moule; ➺ Guǎn.

Sources

Sachs, Curt: Real-Lexikon der Musikinstrumente: zugleich ein Polyglossar für das gesamte Instrumentengebiet [Berlin, 1913]. Hildesheim, 1964 [facsimile], p.369 (»Moule).

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.90.