Zhou Xuan
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Zhou Xiaohong, known professionally as Zhou Xuan, also romanized as Chow Hsuan, was a Chinese singer and film actress. By the 1940s, she had become one of China's Seven Great Singing Stars. Nicknamed
Zhou in 1940
A hand-coloured photo of Zhou in the 1930s.
Zhou Xuan
Poster of the film Meng Lijun (1940)
Flute
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The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the
Zhou Xuan
…Wei currently lives in Toronto, where he performs at times in the TTC subways and participates in various musical projects, including teaching. He is a flautist. He has two daughters, both musicians. The elder of the two, Zhou Xiaoxuan, is a classical pianist trained at Concordia University and now living in…
Shinobue and other flutes
Chinese women playing flutes, from the 12th-century Song dynasty remake of the Night Revels of Han Xizai, originally by Gu Hongzhong (10th century)
Bone flute made of a goat's tibia, 11th–13th century AD.
Playing the zampoña, a Pre-Inca instrument and type of pan flute.