Look what Tastefully Offensive found that Gizmodo found that we found: a girl playing the Super Mario Bros. theme on a sheng, “a Chinese instrument invented thousands of years ago.” What’s so neat ...
For the fifth year of our cross-cultural Asian music collaboration with the Shepherd School of Music, Asia Society is pleased to present sheng virtuoso Wu Wei. Bringing an ancient traditional Chinese ...
Li-Jin Lee of the Taiwan Philharmonic plays the music from Super Mario on an instrument millennia old — and it sounds amazing. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get you as ...
This ancient Chinese instrument is called a sheng. It's a woodwind instrument made of bamboo that sounds deceptively similar to steel drums. It's actually been around since 1100 BCE and sounds like it ...
Among their collaborators has been Zhao Lin, who wrote “A Happy Excursion” and, in the spirit of Silkroad, has already blended traditionally Eastern and Western instruments in another double concerto: ...
The soundtrack to Nintendo's 1985 smash-hit Super Mario Bros. is one of the most iconic in all of pop culture, easily recognizable by those both young and old. We've seen the familiar tune played on ...
A video from YouTube user nsofilm features a musical tribute to Super Mario Bros. played on an ancient Chinese instrument known as the sheng. The sheng is a reed instrument dating back as far as 1100 ...