Yanying Huang


Singapore

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  • "Hi, the musical instrument is a guqin, a seven-string zither: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GuqinA more accurate translation of the title would be "The carpenter's zither desk". You can hear what the zither sounds like at: https://youtu.be/2es7oZzwLWM?t=5sTraditionally, the guqin is considered a musical instrument of the intellectual elite class in ancient China. Only nobles and scholars play this instrument. As it is a very quiet instrument, this zither is only played between close friends in intimate settings for private enjoyment or for meditation. It is never played in the open for public performances.Even today, playing the guqin would be considered an unusually high-brow hobby. If you know how to play the guqin well, you would be quite a rarity. The UNESCO website states that there are less than a thousand trained guqin players in the world.From a product design perspective, it is quite intriguing to see this zither, a historically aristocratic music instrument (with intellectual and meditative connotations) paired with a common carpenter's work bench. It certainly makes for an interesting statement."
    on: Unusual Shop Furniture: A "Carpenter's Piano Desk"
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