User:Skylercafferata/Guzheng/RobieHillier Peer Review

General info

 * Whose work are you reviewing?

Skylercafferata


 * Link to draft you're reviewing
 * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Skylercafferata/Guzheng?veaction=edit&preload=Template%3ADashboard.wikiedu.org_draft_template
 * Link to the current version of the article (if it exists)
 * Guzheng

Evaluate the drafted changes
(Compose a detailed peer review here, considering each of the key aspects listed above if it is relevant. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what feedback looks like.)

Lead
The lead covers what it needs to and doesn't have any unnecessary fluff in it, though one thing that caught my eye was the characterization of the sound as "beautiful". It could be there for a reason and I see there is a source directly after it so there is a possibility, though I do think there could be a more factual way to describe it that wouldn't be in the eye of the beholder.

Content
I enjoyed the article and find the instrument interesting, there seem to be stylistic comparisons to how a guitar is played such as harmonics even though you wouldn't get that impression looking at it. Also if I had to pick my favorite theory for its origin it would have to be the third option, one can dream. I think this article is overall presented well, but I'm curious about when talking about modern strings producing an "acceptable" timbre, was this a debated subject where traditionalists might have kept using wire strings?

Tone and Balance + Sources and Refrences
The article is well cited for the most part, though I do notice two citation needed notes in the "Notable people" sub-heading.

Organization
I think the article is well organized, the only suggestion I would have is to move the popular culture up as I think it contains information that might be more relevant to the reader, especially while the Notable people section lacks citations.

Images and media
There is a lot of good images and I think that it is all very relevant to the topic and interesting to the reader and the only suggestion I can thing of is one I had on the other article, that adding a map to the regional comparisons could give us a chance to visualize the geographic divide of the music.

Overall impressions
I enjoyed reading about this article and learning just how old this instrument it. It was hard to make suggestions for this article because I feel it does a good job of introducing you to the instrument and its history. I also see there are many similar variations of the instrument in the "See also" section, are these instruments similar to how a western guitar has many variations such as standing/electric bass, and 6/12 string guitars, ect?

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