Erhu

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Cristy Lytal, Erhu soloist added heartfelt tone to 'Up in the Air.' Los
Angeles Times, Feb. 21, 2010.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-working-hollywood21-2010feb21,0,1333901.story
(She has lent her talents to "The Joy Luck Club," "Memoirs of a Geisha," "
Kung Fu Panda," "2012" and "The Hurt Locker."

My comment:
(a) Karen Hua-Qi Han  韩 华齐
http://www.karenhan.com

(b) Up in the Air (film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_in_the_Air_(film)
(starring George Clooney, among others)

(c) The report quoted Ms. Han as saying, "'Hu' means it's not really from
China. It was from Tibet and Mongolia, that area, in the beginning. So they
called it 'erhu.' "

But see
Erhu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhu
("The erhu can be traced back to instruments introduced into China more than
a thousand years ago. It is believed to have evolved from the xiqin (奚琴),
which was described as a foreign, two-stringed lute in Yue Shu (樂書, yuè
shū, lit. book of music), an encyclopedic work on music written by music
theorist Chen Yang [陳暘] in the Northern Song Dynasty. The xiqin is
believed to have originated from the Xi people of Central Asia, and have
come to China in the 10th century.")

(d)
fret (n): "one of a series of ridges fixed across the fingerboard of a
stringed musical instrument (as a guitar)"

vibrato (n, Italian): "a slightly tremulous effect imparted to vocal or
instrumental tone for added warmth and expressiveness by slight and rapid
variations in pitch"

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