板胡演奏家张长城，一九三三年十月三日出生于陝西省西安市，一九九八年七月十五日病逝于西安。儿时视力受损，高度近视，看书困难，遂向母亲提出学板胡，母送其往著名秦腔琴师荆生颜处习中音板胡，三年后在西安的秦腔乐社从事伴奏工作。一九五八年，随公安军文工团调济南军区前卫歌舞团，翌年，在全军第二届文艺汇演中演奏其改编之《绣荷包》及《绣金匾》，获优秀节目奖。一九六二年，因脑瘤压迫视线神经而要动手术，手术成功，但一目失明，一目仍高度近视，疗养期间，与原野合作创作了板胡曲《红军哥哥回来了》及二重奏《对口令》、《抬花轿》等。张氏在板胡的演奏弓法上、指法及音域上，均有突破与发展，又在板胡的改革上亦取得若干已付诸于应用的成果，上世纪五十年代初，即将扁束弓毛及缩紧装置用于板胡琴弓，并採用钢弦及金属缠弦。一九五五年，在秦腔板胡的基础上，成功改革为次高音板胡，一九五九年，与原野合作，设置了板胡的前共鸣罩。一九六二年，与原野等一起，又将陝西戏曲“碗碗腔”伴奏用板胡改进为中音板胡，不仅为乐队增添了色彩，并且创造了板胡二重奏的演奏形式。
ZHANG Chang-cheng
ZHANG Chang-cheng was born on October 3, 1933 in Xi’an, Shaanxi province and passed away of illness on July 15, 1998 in Xi’an. He was suffered vision injury, highly short-sighted since his childhood. Hardly study normally, he proposed to his mother to learn the banhu performance. He was then learning the alto banhu under a renowned Shaanxi opera musician JING Sheng-yan and became an accompanist in a Shaanxi opera ensemble after three years. In 1958, he went along with the Song and Dance Troupe of Beijing Public Security Army and transferred to the Progress Chinese Orchestra, Jinan. In 1959, he won the outstanding award in the 2nd Joined Performance of China Armed Forces. In 1962, he had a surgery on his eye sick which led him one eye blinded. During convalesces period, he composed Brother Comes Back and other two duet pieces together with YUAN Ye. His reformation and performing skills gives banhu a successful development. He is the first person to introduce the form of banhu duet in 1962.