Qing

Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments describes a Qing (ch'ing) as a 'Lithophone of the Han Chinese, used in state rituals […] made of resonant limestone, marble or jade'; they are designed to be suspended in a frame and struck with a wooden beater; a teqing is a special qing. This irregular shaped example of varying thickness is made from ?slate, thinned towards the edges and is decorated wit…