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Teaching Harmonica to 50000 People in China...
In 2006, I was working at Zhengzhou University, in Henan Province, China. The Chinese undergraduates were very interested in Western music, but appeared to have few learning resources. This led to the development of Harmonica University.
I wrote the web site (in English), then engaged Shiwee, a very capable post graduate engineering student at Zhengzhou University to provide Chinese translation and webmastering. The initial Harmonica University site was released in mid 2006.
The site is at www.kouqin.com.cn. Kouqin is the Chinese pinyin word for harmonica.
The site has become very popular with Chinese people wishing to learn harmonica, and now has more than 50000 members. This makes it one of the busiest harmonica teaching sites in the world. The logo, created by Shiwee, is shown above. The literal translation of the Chinese characters is "Mouth instrument grass house". It turns out that this is an accurate translation of "Harmonica University"
Harmonica Links Site in China
My Chinese webmaster and I have set up a Chinese Harmonica links site, at www.kouquinlinks.com. The site aims to introduce western harmonica sites to Chinese harmonica enthusiasts (there are many of them). If you have a harmonica site, or a blues site, then click here to go to the submit page. You enter your URL, a paragraph describing your site, and mp3s if you wish to. The paragraph gets tranlated into Chinese, introducing your site to a very large Chinese audience.