林石城:
琵琶演奏家、教育家林石城，一九二二年出生，二○○五年病逝於北京，上海南匯人。十三至十五歲時，父親教會他演奏二胡、三弦、琵琶等多種民族樂器。十九歲畢業於上海中國醫學院，工作期間仍醉心於樂器演奏，尤其是琵琶，並拜浦東派琵琶大師沈浩初為師，技藝逐漸成熟。被邀任上海浦東電氣公司國樂隊、永泰公司樂隊、廣慈醫院民樂隊、上海第一醫學院學生會民樂隊為教師；上海春秋集團樂社音樂指導；上海國樂研究會及建聲國樂社顧問等。一九五六年，任教中央音樂學院，為民樂系教授。長期以來，他還和中央音樂學院、北京民族樂器廠、上海民族樂器廠的琵琶製作師傅合作，對舊有的琵琶的背料長度、音箱形態、橫檔位置、面板厚薄、複手材料及金屬弦的鑒定等，進行了多方面的改革，取得了明顯的效果。從教五十年，培養了劉德海、葉緒然、吳俊生、李光祖、潘亞伯等一大批當今琵琶界的中堅力量，成為我國現、當代琵琶界承上啟下的代表人物，獲中國音樂「金鐘獎終身榮譽勳章」。
LIN Shi-cheng
LIN Shi-cheng was born in 1922 in Shanghai Nanhui. Under his father’s direction, he learned to play erhu, samxian and pipa at 13 to 15 years old. When he was 19 years old, he graduated from the Shanghai China Medical College. He was still interested in playing musical instruments. He then learned the pipa under the direction of master SHEN Hao-chu of the Pudong School. Many ensembles in Shanghai employed him as instructor in traditional music training. In 1956, he was a professor of the Central Conservatory, which started him for pipa teaching profession. He also worked together with the musical instrument manufacturing section of the Central Conservatory, the Beijing Musical Instrument Factory, the Shanghai Musical Instrument Factory for the reformation of pipa manufacturing skills, and has obtained the tangible effects. After teaching for 50 years, his fellow students like LIU De-hai, YE Xu-ran, WU Jun-sheng, LI Guang-zu, PAN A-bo and so on are now the representatives in pipa performing and teaching in China.