顾先生名焘，号梅羹，别名琴禅，祖籍四川华阳。一八九九年十一月六日出生于湖南长沙，一九九○年八月二十二日病故于湖南长沙。顾梅羹的琴艺，自幼承家学，三代能琴，一九一一年始受于乃父及叔父，其祖父谓得青城张孔山亲传《流水》一曲，指法节奏的风格，繁複而纯淨，查阜西先生谓，印象所及，和四川喻家大致相同，所说渊源于蜀，实可信也。一九五六年任中央音乐学院特约通讯研究员，并参加北京古琴研究会，协助查阜西完成《存见古琴曲谱辑览》及《存见古琴指法谱字辑览》等油印著述，一九五九年调任沉阳音乐学院教席，文革时回乡长居，将毕生琴艺著成《琴学备要》传世。
GU Mei-geng
GU Mei-geng was born on November 6, 1899 in Changsha, Hunan province and passed down of illness on August 22, 1990 in Changsha, Hunan province. His first name was Tao, alias Qin-chan and his ancestral home was in Huayang, Sichuan province. In three generations of inheritation, he learned the qin of the Sichuan School from his father and uncle. The score and fingering of the Flowing Water of the GU’s family was directly inherited from the master ZHANG Kong-shan. From 1956, he was appointed as a special correspondent researcher of the Central Conservatory. He was also a member of the Qin Research Association of Beijing and helped ZHA Fu-xi in the development of qin music. In 1959, he was transferred to Shenyang Conservatory as a tutor of qin music. At the Cultural Revolution, he returned to his hometown for retiring. Eventualy, he completed his final writing on the qin music and published a book named the Handbook of Qin Music.