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GUEST,Working Radish | England's National Musical-Instrument? (1943* d) | RE: England's National Musical-Instrument? | 11 Dec 08 |
I don't think anyone would call an erhu a Chinese violin - it would sound patronising and fake. Calling it a Chinese fiddle has a veneer of ethnomusicology about it - as if our fiddle and the Black Sea fiddle and the Chinese fiddle were all offshoots of the ancestral fiddle diaspora. But there's no justification for this - 'Chinese fiddle' is just as patronising and fake as 'Chinese violin'. |