Huluhu

{{Short description|Chinese bowed string instrument}}

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• Bowed string instrument

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• Dahu
• Erhu
• Gaohu
• Gehu
• Huqin
• Sihu
• Yehu
• Zhonghu
• Zhuihu

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The huluhu (traditional: 葫蘆胡; simplified: 葫芦胡; pinyin: húlúhú) is a Chinese bowed string instrument in the huqin family of instruments.{{Cite book |last=Yuan |first=Haiwang |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2YDfAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Huluhu%22+music |title=Princess Peacock: Tales from the Other Peoples of China |date=2008-08-30 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic |isbn=978-1-59158-416-2 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Sfetcu |first=Nicolae |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kXyFAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Huluhu%22+Huqin&pg=PT405 |title=The Music Sound |date=2014-05-07 |publisher=Nicolae Sfetcu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Huluhu, China – Musis |url=https://www.musis.pt/huluhu/ |access-date=2023-12-01 |website=www.musis.pt}} It has two strings, and its sound box is made from a gourd, with a face made of thin wood. It is used primarily by the Zhuang people of the southern Chinese province of Guangxi.

The instrument's name is derived from the Chinese words húlú ("gourd") and hú (short for huqin).