- Brand: Wang's Winds, a famous Chinese wind instruments supplier, their instruments are widely recommended by professional musicians. The Biggest sheng family instruments maker in China.
- Materials: bamboo (pipes), brass reeds and planted brass chamber.
- Mechanical keys: mechanical keys for extended reeds. Chromaic scles from G to f#.
- Level: concertmaster sheng (mouth organ) for soloist or ensemble performers, it's great to play contemporary, jazz, classical and traditional music.
- Dimension: 40 inches height, 9 inches width
- Weight: 15 lbs, 20 lbs with the case.
- Shipping: the sheng will be shipped from China directly, it takes about 7-10 business days.
It is said in China myth that the first female ancestor Nüwa or one of her followers called Sui invented the instrument. It is classified as the guard category of the baby (eight kinds of materials for making instruments). This came from the fact that the early type had a calabash base with pipes mounted through the holes in its top. According to ancient literature, the sheng symbolizes everything that breaks through the soil; the large type is called chao and the smaller. The earliest type ever seen is a 14 piped from Zenghou Yi's tomb in Hubei province. During the period from the southern dynasties to the Tang dynasty (420-907) the sheng played an important role in court music. And in the Ming and Qing dynasty (1368-1911) it was used extensively both in folk instrumental ensembles and in the accompaniment to local theaters and popular narratives. The bowl-like wind chamber was large oarsman in size, equate or round in sharp, and variable in pith arrangement as well.
Now the most common type has 17 reeds/pipes and the improved one for the contemporary compositions have 21 to 38 pipes, with keys and a metal resonating pot for the pipes to insert. The result is a bright and harmonious tone quality, a chromatically complete scale and an extended compass.