Visual aesthetic in the restoration of Qin-zither damaged lacquer surface: Taking the restoration of ZhuSe Qin-zither as an example by Yang Ding, Zeng Li, Wang Yifei

“…For Qin-zither with Literati and artistic temperament, there are high requirements for visual aesthetic in the restoration of damaged lacquer surface. …”
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Pratuokng: The Borneo Bamboo Zither of Bidayuh Sarawak by Sinin Hamdan, Khairul Anwar Mohamad Said, Ahmad Faudzi Musib, Md Rezaur Rahman, Marini Sawawia, Aaliyawani Ezzerin Sinin

Subjects: “…bamboo zither…”
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Li Shang-yin’s ‘The Ornamented Zither’ as a Test Case for Analytic Theories of Interpretation by Szu-Yen Lin

“…In this paper I test major analytic theories of interpretation, including anti-intentionalism, the value-maximizing theory, actual intentionalism, and hypothetical intentionalism, against Li Shang-yin’s poem ‘The Ornamented Zither’. I argue that, based on the results of the test, all of these theories face grave difficulties. …”
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Automatic composition of Guzheng (Chinese Zither) music using long short-term memory network (LSTM) and reinforcement learning (RL) by Shuling Chen, Yong Zhong, Ruxu Du

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A study on the aesthetic characteristics of ethnic music based on radial basis neural network model by Yang Saiyu, Dai Peng

“…To explore the aesthetic features of folk music, this paper takes the radial basis neural network model as the basis and takes the zither piece “Flowing Water” and “Spring River Flower and Moonlight Night” as the examples, and unearths and analyzes the examples to understand the harmonious beauty, unique beauty and contextual beauty under the aesthetic characteristics. …”
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The Organology of Rotenese Musical Instruments According to the Hornbostel-Sachs Classification System by Agastya Rama Listya

“…The seven existing Rotenese traditional musical instruments analyzed in this article are: 1) meko ai or the meko o (the wooden or the bamboo xylophone); 2) the meko besik or the meko lilok (the hanging iron or brass gongs); 3) the meko besik or the meko lilok (the iron or brass metallophone); 4) the labu kici or the labu so’e (the single-headed, bowl-shaped drum); 5) the tambur or the labu (the single-headed, long cylindrical drum); 6) the bitala (the crash cymbals); and 7) the sasandu (the heterochord tube-zither). The only Rotenese traditional musical instrument that is not discussed in this article is kianuk, the two-holed bamboo flute, approximately ten centimeters long. …”
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Wood identification in objects of Bambuti people from the Congo in the collection of the Slovene ethnographic museum by Katarina Čufar, Hans Beeckman, Marko Frelih, Luka Krže, Wannes Hubau, Maks Merela

“…The investigated musical instrument, a wooden zither, was made of wood of Musanga cecropioides, the handle of the shield of Alstonia sp., the dagger and sheath of Autranella congolensis or another high density species of Sapotaceae, and the crossbow of Nauclea diderichii (bow) and Xylopia sp. …”
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