Dizi - a bamboo flute, most commonly with played with traditional equidistant finger holes

Xiao – a bamboo flute played similar to a western recorder, also made with equidistant finger holes

Erhu – a two-string vertical fiddle. A second erhu is sometimes used, known as fanhu (meaning "counter fiddle" or "cross fiddle"); it has thicker strings tuned several notes below the main erhu