CHINESE

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN THE COLLECTION OF BERNARD KLEIKAMP

List compiled November 2018.
For comparison: the tiles on which the instruments were photograped are 40x40cm.


• Bronze gong,
diameter: 51.7cm, in
green canvas bag,
diameter 57cm,
marked on the
outside in yellow painted ideograms.
Factory marked "Wohan" on inside.

• Bronze gong, diameter: 29cm. Illegible factory mark on the
inside.
• two mini-gongs, attached by cord to each other, Diameters:
17.2cm, 14.3cm. Inner diameters: 13cm, 11cm.
• Pair of cymbals (diameter: 15.3cm), with red sashes and
boss (diameter: 6.5cm)


• Four wooden dippers. Rhythm instrument
2x diameter 33cm; 2x diameter 22cm.

• Ornament to be placed on top of a lusheng; bamboo,
face-shaped.
Length: 20cm. Width: 8cm.


• four wooden beater/clappers. Lengths: 27cm
• one padded beater (for the gongs), length: 23cm
• two beaters with rubber ends on both sides, one larger
than the other. One small rubber missing. Length: 31.5cm
• wooden block with central slit, bottom 13cm, top
11.3cm, heigth 4cm, width 3.6cm.



• Pair of cymbals (diameter: 29.8cm), with red sashes and
small boss (diameter: 9cm). Marked 144 on top side

Muyu (wooden fish), 3 pieces (9cm, 10cm, 7cm
diameters)mounted on 29cm long wooden stick with two
beaters (length 29cm, one broken and provisionally fixed by
its player). Two of the muyu are painted red. Percussion
instrument.

• Two smooth oval-shaped stones (length 10cm dark-brown, 8cm
grey-black) with Chinese characters on them. Used as percussion
instruments.

The green canvas bag held the bronze gongs, cymbals, mini-gongs, beaters, muyu.

Wooden box, painted in dark red, used for transport of
musical instruments. 68x22x12cm. Originally containing
circa 20 lushengs in various sizes, but these have all been
sold or given away in the course of years. Five of them are
now in the collection of Helen Rees at UCLA in Los Angeles,
USA.

Provenance: all the above acquired from Guizhou National Art Ensemble from Guiyang
in Guizhou Province, China, that was on a concert tour in Netherlands in Belgium,
July/August 1993. The tour was organised by Bernard Kleikamp, and the ensemble
members at the end of the tour sold their surplus instruments, to save on weight for the
return flight and at the same time for some extra cash.
The ensemble made 2 CDs for Pan Records:
Pan 2023 Huanle de Miaojia / A happy Miao Family
Pan 149 Emotions for the Weishui River
The above percussion instruments were played on these recordings.



14. 3x suona (lengths: 32cm, 28cm, 18.6cm), each with
bocal (conical mouth piece on a cork in which the reed
is placed), "spit" rings to be affiched on top of the
bocal, bells (diameters: 15cm, 13cm, 8.4cm) and reeds
in various sizes.
Provenance: bought by me in a music instrument shop
near Tien An Men Square in Beijing during a visit to
Beijing, mid-1990s.

• 3x xun (= ocarina), brown pottery, with top hole and 6
finger holes, diameters at bottom 7cm, 6cm, 4cm; heigths
12cm, 8cm, 6.5cm.
Provenance: bought by me in a music instrument shop
near Tien An Men Square in Beijing during a visit to
Beijing, mid-1990s.


• Pi Lamdao (a Dai musical instrument), literally translated: Blow vertical gourd. Pi
means wind instrument, lamdao means gourd
Length: 37.5cm. In Chinese this instrument is called hulusi. This one is made by En
Dequan, who is a male from the Dai ethnic group, who lived in Lianghe County and is a
fourth generation instrument maker.

Marked: Yengsheng Musical Instrument Factory. This is a small factory
in Kunming, Yunnan Province, where En Dequan worked in the 1990s.
This is not the traditional Pi Lamdao, this type was an "improvement"
developed in the 1960s by Chinese instrument makers. The sound was
very diffferent then.
Provenance: gift from Prof. Zhang Xingrong from Kunming, mid-1990s.

Two dizi (transverse bamboo flute with mirliton hole) in
green box with Ch. text. 46cm length with Ch. text and
landscape notched on surface. Name maker on top
between first and second finger hole.
Provenance: gift mid-1990s from Wu Jinguang, at that
time employed by China Ethnic Minority Association for
External Exchanges in Beijing. He retired in 2017.


Miniature morin khuur (horseshaped fiddle) in box.
Mongolian ethnic group.
Dimensions of box: 22x6x5cm
Dimensions of morin khuur: length 19cm
Provenance: gift ca. 1996 from Wu Jinguang, at that time
employed by China Ethnic Minority Association for
External Exchanges in Beijing. He retired in 2017.


Dizi (bamboo transverse flute with mirliton--vibrating hole
covered by paper). Dark brown. Length: 32.5cm. Some Ch.
text on the surface.


Two Bawu (wooden transverse flute). Lengths: 65cm
(damaged: split), 62cm.
Acquired from maker, mid 1990s.