Shē

Shē *board zither of China, with convex surface; in antiquity it had 50 strings, now reduced to 25, each with its own triangular bridge, and tuned to a pentatonic scale. The instr. is richly ornamented with lacquerwork. Ca. 2 m. (80 in.) long and 46 cm. (18 in.) wide (4, 142). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Alender, I. S. Musical Instruments of China (in Russian). Moscow, 1958. Moule, A. C. “A List of the Musical and Other Sound-producing Instruments of the Chinese,” in…