箜篌 Konghou - an ancient Chinese harp 湘妃竹 Xiang Fei Bamboo

This is truly amazing. Not like that stupid "Aquaharp" bullshit.

Wow

Anyone want to give me a guess what the vibrato tone change here is?

The strings are intimidating , imagine playing it would be much more challenging .

nono you have it the other way round. a guzheng is very long, mine is about 160 cm and has 23 string. a gu qin is short and only has 5 strings. the one seen in kung fu hustle is a giant gu qin lol~

no, i told about the differences of the "Kungfu hustle" guqin and a guzheng. Not a real guqin :) but the one in KH seems like a combination of guzheng and guqin, cuz i saw it has bridges :-?

a guqin doesn't have bridges, so i guess it's more gu zheng than gu qin xD

xD anyway, i love that 'strange' instrument xd u must be very excited in playing guzheng, right xD

yes it has the most beautiful sound :)

what evidence is there that the konghou (original) was imported from the west? that's nonsense. the modern konghou obviously, but the original instrument dates as far back as the 700s BC

Are those judges? because that's a lot of judges.

HOLY SHIT! SO FUCKING GOOD, I LOVE YOU!

You should check your facts before you rudely dismiss others' comments as "nonsense". The earliest evidence for harps is in Mesopotamia, and as far back as 3500 BCE. Its gradual spread from there to the Iranian plateau, then to Central Asia, and then finally many centuries later into China is well documented in art and literature. I know of no serious organologist who disputes that fact. Even angular harps, the specific class to which the ancient konghou belongs, go back to 1900 BCE.

very nice

i can listen to this melody all day long. beautiful 

Quick! Someone get rid of the western harps in the school orchestra and replace it with this Jewel!

So this has two sets of strings! I only play the regular harp.

尽美矣！又尽善矣！ 

A western harp crossed with blues guitar! She's pressing the strings on one side to bend the pitch. 

The music is pretty darned different too. There is less of a distinction between the right/melody hand and the chord/left hand than you'd get with a classical or romantic piece from Europe. 

I love this!!! ^-~

Actually this instrument was invented quite recently in 20th century AD. There were however a few different harp-like instruments in chinese history which were also called konghou.

Incredible performance. I love it.

This is the most BEAUTIFUL sound!!

So glad I stumbled upon this. wow. thanks for sharing your gift!

this is not the traditional way of music, the red color cloth , the girl who is playing the instrument, and the way how she play and feeling could not be feel as elegance. no sense of beauty

a sexy and modern girl dress in a special way. play some instrument with intention. probally this is a mean to catch eyes of public .

大中华的瑰宝

现代箜篌的音色更接近古筝

It sound so authentic

its a koto on steroids

Je me crois au paradis.....😇💘👍

双排的箜篌好听

This is unbelievably beautiful. I've been a guitarist for around 12 years and this blows my mind. I have to buy one of these. I must learn this.

This is not a Konghou ! But a French harp disguised with chinese features . Konghou were smaller, tiner, simpler and not really appreciated, reason what it disapeared since the 16th century

Took some random online quiz to see which instrument matches my personality and found myself here. Glad I did because I’d never heard of this instrument before

不是竖琴吗？有什么不同？

How can we buy a modern kong hou?

This Is So Harmonious... It Should Be More Than This °♡°

This looks like the guzheng but put into a harp

♡ beautiful ♡

her hands are so beautiful and elegant, I love watching her, 
she is mesmerizing.

I request your help, kindly help me with the harp

Amazing!!!

The shown in the video isn’t ancient at all, but a very modern developed instrument of the late 20th century.

I was told to play konghou

Just lovely!