Bowed Instruments

Bowed Instruments

Overview of Bowed Instruments

Chinese Bowed Instruments, common the erhu Jinghu, Banhu, Ogo

Hu, Hu, dances, four Hu and fall Hu et al. The common feature of these instruments is to use the horsetail friction mounted on the bow on the strings, the vibration pronunciation. Such musical instruments collectively referred to as the music of the erhu, all over the country to use the music of the erhu and no less than dozens of broadly similar shape, the shape, size, range, tone is different.

Erhu

The erhu is the most representative of the Chinese pull the strings, wood, consisting of the piano rod, Qintong,, bow part. Qintong is the resonance box of the erhu, one end of the sound window, one end of Mongolia to the snake skin or python on home piano yards, two strings. Bows of the cauda equina is sandwiched between two strings bowed. Erhu tone of firmness and flexibility, both played a soft and smooth tunes and can play jump strong melody. China's national orchestra is often served as the main musical instrument. Five-tune a stringed instrument, often given by d1 ~ a1, the range of about three octaves.

The famous track "Traditional" and "Nocturne".

Huqin about nearly a thousand years of history. Xi piano since the Tang and Song, Ji Qin erhu is their predecessor. The literature showed that the Song Dynasty horsetail huqin. Yulin Grottoes, Gansu, a Yuan Dynasty murals, a Kuregaku bow playing a stringed fiddle of musical instruments, and provides about erhu image data. After the Ming Dynasty the shape huqin much the same with today's erhu. Later with the rise of the local opera, many styles of music of the erhu instrument category.

Jinghu

Pipa Chinese local opera opera accompaniment of musical instruments, bamboo. Piano rod side set of pegs, the bottom section into Qintong. Qintong before mouth Mongolia snakeskin, after exposure. Bow on Shuanma Last. Zhang Erxian, with extremely heavy. The five-tune a stringed instrument, commonly used D stressed that E tone two yellow jinghu and E flat, the Sipi jinghu of the G, the range of about two octaves.

The solo is caused by opera tunes such as "open", "Deep in the Night".

Jing Hu Ziqing-generation since the mid, with the formation of the Peking Opera, traditional folk Bowed Instruments on the basis of conversion from. Short rod of the early piano, Qintong Zhang stringed bowed, with a soft bow; the 20th century, half of today's shape. 1950s began to use steel strings.

Banhu

Banhu Qintong use of coconut shell is made of paulownia board masked; piano bar wooden upper end side of the set of two pegs. Jin placed in the middle of the piano bar racks chord. Zhang string or wire 2. The Bows longer. Tip Banhu sound high, large volume, portamento with too broad and simply refreshing and to Banhu unique playing style, suitable for playing high-pitched, warm and cheerful tunes. Tune a stringed instrument d2, a1, range for the d2 g4 and up to two and a half octaves. High music in the band, often served as the strings of the main outs or lead.

Solo "Festival of Lights," "hurry".

Banhu is a treble to pull the strings, the prevalence of Shaanxi, Gansu, Shanxi and other provinces in China since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, with the rise of the local opera Bangzi opera, on the basis of the erhu from restructuring.