List of Chinese musical instruments
This is an alphabetical list of traditional Chinese musical instruments. It contains the Chinese name, the Pinyin spelling ( with tones), the type of instrument and the type of sound production, leading to the used traditional materials, the ancient Chinese Bayin ( "eight sounds ") categories (nowadays even if, for example, the string instruments are predominantly metal or nylon strings used in the silk category ) and called some more facts & figures. There are also some instruments of national minorities included Chinese with.