what is the pipa instrument
The pipa (Chinese: çµç¶; pinyin: pipa, [pÃ­pa]) pÊ°ÇpÊ°Ç is a-four Stringed chinese musical, instrument belonging to the plucked category of. Instruments sometimes called The chinese, lute the instrument has a-pear shaped wooden body with a varying number of frets ranging from 12 to. 26arly literary tradition in China, for example in a 3rd-century description by Fu Xuan, Ode to Pipa, associates the Han pipa with the northern frontier, Princess Liu Xijun, and Wang Zhaojun, who were married to nomad rulers of the Wusun and Xiongnu peoples in what is now Mongolia and northern Xinjiang respectively.