Meaning of p'i-p'a | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“This completes the observations made with the help⟳ of the Chinese musicians at the Health Exhibition. But, in addition to these, I measured the lengths of string in several instruments at the South Kensington Museum. They very great uncertainty of the scales deduced from such measurements induces me to pass⟳ over the results. I may mention⟳, however, that these measurements show⟳, in a second P'i-p'a, that the four large round frets already named probably gave a Fourth, divided into a Tone and three Semitones of some sort⟳ ; that one "Moon Guitar" seemed intended to give⟳ 12 equal Semitones, that only trace of Amiot's scale which I have⟳ found, and another Moon Guitar seemed to divide⟳ the Octave into 8 Threequartertones of 150 cents each.”

“Hsi-men Ch'ing was drinking wine with Li P'ing-erh in her bedroom when he suddenly heard the sound⟳ of someone playing the p'i-p'a in a nearby dwelling. "Who's playing the p'i-p'a?" he asked. "It's the sound⟳ of the Fifth Lady, over there, playing her p'i-p'a," replied Ying-ch'un.”

“Above, a young Chinese child plays the p'i-p'a, a stringed instrument similar to a guitar or lute.”

“In the city, the moth-browed girl, her jade pendants like⟳ tiny wind chimes chiming. She is playing with a parrot in the flowers; she is playing on her p'i-p'a in the moonlight. Her songs will echo for three months; a little dance⟳ will draw⟳ ten thousand watchers. Nothing lasts as long as this: beautiful face⟳ of the hibiscus, can't bear⟳ the frost's caress.”

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