Qin 琴, words and ways of the ancient Chinese also 
The inscription says. "The wind in the pine trees and the babbling brook are nature's melody Although the qin has been brought along, it is Not Necessary to put on the strings Looking down. on the hills there is a sense of grass in great quantity. Quietly attained by Hung Chaoran "
26th January 2008 19:00 Clock
lecture recital with Manfred Dahmer
Frankfurt Goethe Museum
arcade hall
Large Hirschgraben 23
Admission: 12 €; box office
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Who himself and others familiar
is seen here:
Orient and Occident
If no longer be separated.
Sinnig between two worlds
to weigh yourself, I accept;
So move between east and west
yourself, seis the best!
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
From the estate to the West-Eastern Divan
In his talk Dr. Manfred Dahmer concerts connects the game on the Qin with notes and poems, this extraordinary instrument, and its foreign music their importance to bring near.
The Qin had since the earliest times, a special place in Chinese cultural history: For no other instrument has been so much music written and delivered. No other instrument has been written so much.
The Qin remained a tool for scholars, painters and poets, philosophers and rulers.
The softness of her tone can be difficult to enforce. It does not aim at superficial effects, because their rhythm is not fascinated with catchy, appealing patterns. A continuous pulse is repeatedly interrupted, dissolves, goes out in one breath.
Dr. Manfred Dahmer has dedicated himself as a musician, musicologist and sinologist past three decades, the Qin, its music and its rich cultural background. In the late 70s he studied the Qin to the Central Music School in Beijing and Taiwan.
In November 2003, the Qin-art by UNESCO in the list of the oral and intangible cultural heritage Date of humanity.
Organized by the Society of Medical Qigong Yangsheng eV,
Colmantstr. 9, 53115 Bonn, Tel: 0228-696004 Fax: 0228-696006,
goes from January 15, 2008 more's! It is the relaxed permeability (Fang Song), and practiced with the shape of a long Yang-style form started. 
