Introduction of Chinese Musical Instruments
古筝Guzheng
Guzheng is a traditional Chinese musical instrument of the Han nationality. It belongs to plucked instruments. It is one of China's unique and important national musical instruments. It has a beautiful timbre, a wide range of sounds, rich performance skills, and a fairly strong expressive power, so it is deeply loved by the majority of the people. The shape of the zheng is a rectangular wooden speaker, and the most commonly used specification is the 21-string.
琵琶 Pipa
Pipa, the first plucked instrument, plucked string-like instrument. Made of wood or bamboo, the speaker is half-pear-shaped, with a four-string top, originally made of silk, but now mostly made of steel wire, steel rope, nylon. The neck and the panel are set to determine the "phase" and "quality" of the phoneme.
Hold it vertically, press the strings with your left hand, and play with your five fingers with your right hand. It is an important ethnic instrument that can be used for solo, accompaniment, ensemble and ensemble.
Pipa is a traditional East Asian plucked instrument with a history of more than 2,000 years. The earliest instrument called the "pipa" appeared around the Qin Dynasty in China. The word "珏" in the word "pipa" means "the two jade hit each other and make a pleasant impact", which means that this is a musical instrument that sounds by striking the strings.
二胡Erhu
Erhu has a history of more than 1,000 years. It is a traditional Chinese stringed instrument, and it is one of the main bowed string instruments (stringed instruments) in the Chinese national musical instrument family. Erhu began in the Tang Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,000 years. It first originated from a minority in the ancient northern region of China.
扬琴Yangqin
The dulcimer is a commonly used percussion instrument in China. It shares the same characteristics with the piano. It has a distinctive tone, with a large volume, and is soft and flexible. When playing slowly, the tone is like a jingling mountain spring, and when it is fast, the tone is like a stream of water. The timbre is bright, as crisp as big beads and jade plates. It is extremely rich in expression, and can be used as a solo, ensemble, or accompaniment to piano, rap, and opera. It often plays the role of "piano accompaniment" in folk instrumental ensembles and ethnic bands. It is an indispensable.
古琴guqin
Guqin is a traditional Chinese plucked stringed instrument with a history of more than 3,000 years. The guqin has a wide tone range, deep timbre, and long aftertaste.
笛子Dizi
The Dizi is an ancient traditional musical instrument, and it is also the most representative and most national wind instrument of traditional musical instruments. One of the horizontal blowing woodwind instruments commonly used in traditional Chinese music, the Chinese bamboo flute is generally divided into the southern flute, the northern flute and the midrange flute in between. The sound range can generally reach two octaves and more than two.
Dizi is often used in Chinese folk music, opera, Chinese National Orchestra, Western Symphony Orchestra and modern music. It is one of the representative instruments of Chinese music. In the national band, the flute is a pivotal wind instrument and is regarded as the representative of the national wind instrument.
Most of the flutes are made of bamboo, but there are also stone flutes, jade flutes and mahogany flutes, and bone flutes in ancient times. However, the best raw material for making the flute is still bamboo, because the sound of the bamboo flute sounds better and the production cost is lower.
阮Ruan
Ruan, the abbreviation of Ruan Xian, also has the meaning of a long-necked pipa, which is similar to today's Yueqin, and is different from the tune pipa transmitted from Guizi. Ruan Xianshan, one of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Forest in the Western Jin Dynasty, played a pipa. A piece of bronze pipa was unearthed from the tomb of Ruan Xian in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. The structure is a wooden round resonance box with a straight handle, four strings and twelve pillars, and it is played by hand with a vertical hug. In the Tang Dynasty, the pipa was a device for transmitting orders in the army, so there was a saying that the pipa was urged to drink immediately.
箫 xiao
Xiao has a long history, round and soft tone, quiet and elegant, suitable for solo and repeat.
It is usually made of bamboo with blow holes at the top. It is divided into six-hole flute and eight-hole flute according to the number of "sound holes". The six-hole flute is the first five after one, and the eight-hole flute is the first seven after one. Eight hole flute is the product of modern improvement.
葫芦丝 Hulusi
Hulusi is a musical instrument of ethnic minorities in Yunnan, China.
Hulusi can be divided into three types: high, medium and low. Its tone is unique and simple, its appearance is simple, exquisite, easy to learn, and it is loved by many music lovers. Cucurbit silk, also known as "cucurbit flute," is a musical instrument of ethnic minorities in Yunnan. Cucurbit silk originated in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and is mainly popular in Yunnan, Hong, Dechang, Dong, Deang, and Brown Lincang area is rich in local colors. It is often used to play folk songs such as folk songs and agricultural songs.
Hulusi can be divided into three types: high, medium and low. Its tone is unique and simple, its appearance is simple, exquisite, easy to learn, and it is loved by many music lovers.