The lāruǎn (拉阮; also spelled la ruan) is a relatively new Chinese string instrument blending the acoustics of the ruan with that of the Western cello.

Its larger counterpart is the dalaruan (大拉阮), which corresponds to the double bass.

[1] The instrument has a pear-shaped wooden body like ruan, with neck no frets but bowed by horsehair bow These musical instruments were created in the 20th century to be an alternative to other bowed bass register instruments used in Chinese orchestras, such as dihu, cello/double bass, gehu/diyingehu, damatouqin/dimatouqin, and paqin/dapaqin.

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