Yangqin

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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Invention

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The trapezoidal yangqin (simplified Chinese: 扬琴; traditional Chinese: 揚琴; pinyin: yángqín; Jyutping: joeng4 kam4) is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, likely derived from the Iranian santur or the European dulcimer.

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