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Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man

Pipa Virtuoso Wu Man

March 08, 2017

This week my guest will be Wu Man, a virtuoso on the pipa, a traditional Chinese Instrument that's roughly 2,000 years old. We will be discussing her work with Philip Glass, and her experiments playing the pipa the wah wah and distortion pedals.

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