顧先生名燾，號梅羹，別名琴禪，祖籍四川華陽。一八九九年十一月六日出生於湖南長沙，一九九○年八月二十二日病故於湖南長沙。顧梅羹的琴藝，自幼承家學，三代能琴，一九一一年始受於乃父及叔父，其祖父謂得青城張孔山親傳《流水》一曲，指法節奏的風格，繁複而純淨，查阜西先生謂，印象所及，和四川喻家大致相同，所說淵源於蜀，實可信也。一九五六年任中央音樂學院特約通訊研究員，並參加北京古琴研究會，協助查阜西完成《存見古琴曲譜輯覽》及《存見古琴指法譜字輯覽》等油印著述，一九五九年調任沈陽音樂學院教席，文革時回鄉長居，將畢生琴藝著成《琴學備要》傳世。
GU Mei-geng
GU Mei-geng was born on November 6, 1899 in Changsha, Hunan province and passed down of illness on August 22, 1990 in Changsha, Hunan province. His first name was Tao, alias Qin-chan and his ancestral home was in Huayang, Sichuan province. In three generations of inheritation, he learned the qin of the Sichuan School from his father and uncle. The score and fingering of the Flowing Water of the GU’s family was directly inherited from the master ZHANG Kong-shan. From 1956, he was appointed as a special correspondent researcher of the Central Conservatory. He was also a member of the Qin Research Association of Beijing and helped ZHA Fu-xi in the development of qin music. In 1959, he was transferred to Shenyang Conservatory as a tutor of qin music. At the Cultural Revolution, he returned to his hometown for retiring. Eventualy, he completed his final writing on the qin music and published a book named the Handbook of Qin Music.