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    Quote Originally Posted by SeverinR View Post
    I guess you missed my question.

    Hummelchen; is this basically a miniture bagpipe or is just similar?
    Sorry about that!

    Yes, they are bagpipes. Hummelchen style bagpipes are small with two drones. They’re good for playing indoors or with other instruments like recorder or crumhorn consort. This particular style is German, but other countries have their own versions of smallpipes as well.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ailith View Post
    You’ll have to help me out with my Chinese history... is the Feudal Period somewhere around the Zhou and Qin dynasties?

    The Chinese instruments that I’m most familiar with are the konghou and the erhu.

    Erhus (a two stringed vertically-played violin-type instrument) are awesome and sound amazing, but I don’t think they are old enough to be considered a feudal instrument (assuming that Feudal is Zhou/Qin).

    The konghou is a type of harp. Modern konghou have long strings folded over a piece of wood to make two ranks. It has a different timbre than regular harps and allows players to pitch bend. The ancient version of the konghou set up a little differently. I’m not familiar with the particulars that differ, but it may be worth a little researching if you're interested in this type of instrument.

    Pretty much every ancient culture had simple flutes, so those are a safe bet. I believe this type of flute in China is called a xiao.

    A guqin is dulcimer-type instrument that is very ancient - but other than that, I don’t know a lot about it. (I just know it from Jet Li’s Hero - it is played during one of the fights)

    Hope this helps!
    If I wanted to be picky, it's Qing, but yes, you are correct.

    Trust me, you've been veeeeery helpful. Thank you.

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    [QUOTE=Ailith;41209]
    Pretty much every ancient culture had simple flutes, so those are a safe bet. I believe this type of flute in China is called a xiao
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    I have also been researching Chinese instruments for my WIP... they had bamboo-type flutes as well as these egg-shaped clay ones:
    Xun (instrument) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    I have also been researching Chinese instruments for my WIP... they had bamboo-type flutes as well as these egg-shaped clay ones:
    Xun (instrument) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Cool! They look a lot like ocarinas! Thanks for sharing, Kit
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ailith View Post
    Sorry about that!

    Yes, they are bagpipes. Hummelchen style bagpipes are small with two drones. They’re good for playing indoors or with other instruments like recorder or crumhorn consort. This particular style is German, but other countries have their own versions of smallpipes as well.
    Perfect, I was trying to find a bagpipe type instrument that could be played inside(practice or someplace a full bagpipe might blast a person out.) I wanted the bagpipes because they are so loud. Just hard to practice in a cave with such a loud instrument. (The bagpipe will be played to inspire the military in battle, where a flute or gemshorn would never even be heard..)
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