陳長林先生，曾用名“陳長齡”，福建省福州市人，一九三二年出生於福州。中國科學院計算技術研究所研究員，中國琴會常務理事，北京古琴研究會理事。一九四六年從父親陳澤鍠（琴趣）和表姨吳子美開始學習閩派琴藝，一九五一年參加“今虞琴社”，向吳景略、張子謙等琴家請益，一九五六年到北京，在中國科學院從事電腦研製工作，又參加“北京古琴研究會”，向查阜西等琴家學習，以閩派為基礎，兼收各派之長，形成自己的特點。一九五八年開始發掘、打譜琴曲《胡笳十八拍》、《大胡笳》（龍朔操）、《莊周夢蝶》等近三十曲。
CHEN Chang-lin was born in 1932 in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Beforehand, he used CHEN Chang-ling as his name. In 1946, he began to learn the qin of Min School under his father CHEN Ze-huang and aunt WU Zi-mei. In 1951, he joined the Jinyu Qin Musicians Association and learned the qin under WU Jing-lue and ZHANG Zi-qian. In 1956, he worked at the Academia Sinica Institute of Computing Technology, Beijing as a research fellow. At that time, he joined the Beijing Qin Society and learned the qin under ZHA Fu-xi. Since1958, he wrote more than 30 articles on qin music research.