qinpu /t͡ʃɪnˈpuː/ noun[plural only]1 •Tablature score collections for the Chinese musical instrument, the guqin.In qin music the pervasive mood/mode (when one can be said to be at the fore) is the autumn/shang correlation, and in many qinpu (collections of qin notations), pieces in shang are the most numerous. — 1993
