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‖ p'ip'a|piːˈpɑː|
Also pepa, pipa, etc.
[Chinese.]
A Chinese stringed instrument (see quot. 1975).
1839Chinese Repository May 42 Pepa, the balloon shaped guitar... This is about three feet in length... The strings are of silk. 1848S. W. Williams Middle Kingdom II. xvi. 165 In writing a tune for the lute or pipa, ‘each note is a cluster of characters’. 1874Jrnl. N. China Branch R. Asiatic Soc. VIII. 115 The P'i-p'a.., or ‘Balloon-shaped Guitar’, described by the Chinese as resembling a ham, has a body like the egg of a goose nearly a foot in diameter with four strings, which are played with the fingers. 1917Encycl. Sinica 388/2 P‘i p‘a is a lute about forty-two inches long with a pear-shaped body. The neck is eight and a half inches long. It has ten or twelve frets and four or six strings. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) II. 238/2 P'i-p'a.., four-stringed short lute (sometimes ‘balloon guitar’)... About 3 ft. long and 1 ft. wide.., the body is pear-shaped, its back being rounded but shallow, its front flat and covered with the soundboard... The four silk strings..are attached..to a cross-ledge on the soundboard. 1962E. Snow Red China Today (1963) lxxiii. 563 The p'i-p'a is a native Chinese instrument something like a zither. 1975C. P. Mackerras Chinese Theatre in Mod. Times 22 Of the plucked, non-bowed stringed instruments the most significant is the pear-shaped p'i-p'a... It is played held upright on the thigh. The musician plucks the strings with his right thumb and first finger, sometimes protected with a plectrum, and determines the pitch with three of his left fingers. 1979Time 2 Apr. 48/1 Liu Dehai played a concerto for a lutelike instrument called the pipa. |