The sheng is one of the oldest, most important traditional Chinese instruments. It is made of bamboo pipes and its origins can be traced back over 3,000 years, making it one of the earliest known ...

Drawing instruments have been essential to mathematics, architecture, surveying, navigation, engineering design, and other technical endeavors from antiquity through the 20th century, although ...

Drawing instruments have been essential to mathematics, architecture, surveying, navigation, engineering design, and other technical endeavors from antiquity through the 20th century, although ...

Wood is a common material in many Chinese musical instruments, but relatively few are classified as wooden under the system that assigns instruments to one of eight categories, the bayin.