Definition & Meaning | English word PAIBAN
PAIBAN
Definitions of PAIBAN
- A clapper made from several flat pieces of hardwood or bamboo, used in Chinese music.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using PAIBAN in a Sentence
- In the front row there are five women (from right to left) playing the konghou (箜篌; bow harp), the guzheng (古箏; an 18–23-stringed plucked zither with moveable bridges), pipa (琵琶; lute), paiban (拍板; bamboo clapper) and dagu (大鼓; bass drum) while, in the back row, there are seven women playing the sheng (笙; mouth organ), fang xiang (方響; Chinese metallophone), dalagu (答臘鼓; West Asian cylindrical drum), two bili (篳篥; oboes), and two bamboo transverse flutes (hengdi 橫笛 or dizi 笛子).
- Zhongguo feng pop music typically involves the use of traditional Chinese instruments, such as the pipa (stringed Chinese lute), guzheng (Chinese zither), erhu (Chinese two-stringed fiddle), dizi (Chinese bamboo flute), yangqin (Chinese hammered dulcimer), dagu (Chinese bass drum), gong, paiban (clapper) and others.
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