楊葆元先生，字乾齋，湖南省寧遠縣清水橋人，被譽為湘中琴學名宿，楊時百的哲嗣，一八九九年出生，一九六二年一月二十一月病逝於北京。其琴藝直宗並深得其獨步燕都的父親，宣南為琴來室、舞胎仙館主人，九疑山人楊宗稷（時百）的真傳，其琴風深具北派以味取勝的特點，蒼古正大，技巧豐富，格調高峻，沉吟有致。一九四七年，楊先生與張伯駒、溥雪齋、王世襄、管平湖、鄭珉中等人發起組織了“北平琴學社”，一九五四年，改名為“北京古琴研究會”。
YANG Bao-yuan was born in 1899 and passed away of illness on January 21, 1962 in Beijing. His first name was Qian Zhai and his ancestral home was in Qingshui Qiao of Ningyuan, Hunan Province. He inherited all his father’s performing art in the qin. In 1947, he and ZHANG Bo-ju, PU Xue-zhai, WANG Shi-xiang, GUAN Ping-hu together with ZHENG Min-zhong founded the Peiping Qin Association and renamed the Qin Research Association of Beijing in 1954.