Liu's students, such as Jiang Fengzhi and Chen Zhenduo, continued to contribute to the development of the erhu.

[2] Liu was a noted erhu and pipa player, and an early pioneer in the modernisation of traditional Chinese music.

He joined Cai Yuanpei's Peking University Music Society as an instrumental instructor in 1922.

[3] He also made changes to the pipa, increasing the number of frets and used an equal-tempered tuning.

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