Plucked string instruments

Plucked Instruments Overview

Chinese plucked string instruments, plucked with fingers or plectrum or with the Qin bamboo hit string instruments and pronunciation. Shape, different playing method, plucked instruments can be divided into three categories:

A piano, zheng class. Guqin, guzheng representative. Such instrument to a rectangular wooden box for the piano on the set strings, lying flat play;

Two Pipa class. Nguyen, three-stringed lute, Liuqin Yueqin, Qin Qin and so on. This type of instrument with round or pear-shaped wooden box for Body, Neck longer. Rotary neck Anxian on the left hand, right hand plucked, placed in the legs to play;

Third, the dulcimer class. Trapezoidal wooden box, dulcimer to piano, stood on the code string, bamboo piano clavichord pronunciation.

Guqin

Guqin formerly known as the "piano" as a whole is a wooden prolate shape resonance box. Outside of the piano surface embedded 13 round phoneme sign, called the emblem. Piano the end of set 2 feet, and open Longchi "," Phoenix marsh "two out of the sound hole. Strings tied in the Qin Zhen. The guqin common variety of piano-style the Fuxi type Zhong Ni type. The age-old guqin film often broken lines; broken lines, piano pronunciation opacity, the more valuable. Qin Zhang 7 chord, there are mainly three kinds of tune a stringed instrument method: First, C, D, F, G, A, c, d; C and D and F, G and bB, c, d; C, D, E, G, A, c, d, range C, ~ d3,. Playing the piano at the table, his right hand plucked strings, left hand the Anxian take sound. The Guqin tone is elegant, artistic conception.

Traditional music of "Flowing Water", "Guanglingsan", "Plum Blossom" the Xiaoxiang Shuiyun "," Orchids ".

Guqin at least 3,000 years, the oldest Chinese poetry collection "Book of Songs, piano recorded in many places. And more proficient in playing the ancient upper intellectuals, such as the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius, the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai, Bai, Song Dynasty Huizong emperor, is the history of the famous qin. Because the ruler of the initiative, the piano occupies a lofty position in Chinese society.

Zheng

Zheng its ancient historical roots, also known as Zheng. Zheng flat and rectangle constitute a hollow resonator composed of the frame, and the bottom at the bottom to open out the sound hole. Zheng's first tail embedded Yueshan, Zheng surface set the string, the common folk for the 13 string and 16 string, improved Zheng generally located 21 chord. Zheng pentatonic tune a stringed instrument, the range of three octaves. Available with both hands at the same time to play six notes is a good solo and ensemble instrument.

The famous song "Boats", "High Mountain and Flowing Water".

Zheng is widely popular in the Spring and Autumn Period. The kind of archaeological discoveries, Guixi Spring and Autumn Zheng and Jiangsu Wuxian Longbridge Warring States Zheng, dating back more than 2500 years of history. Its shape, the Department of strings the way, a few strings and future generations Zheng similar.

Lute

Pipa, elastic stringed instruments. Pear-shaped speakers, backplane with sandalwood, mahogany, rosewood, production, panel Paulownia headstock carving Ruyi and other auspicious patterns, some inlaid with precious stones. The modern pipa 6 relative to 18 products, 24 products, 25 products and 28 products such as shape, arranged in equal temperament. Lute frequently used tune a stringed instrument, A, d, e, a, range A ~ g3, the sound crisp and bright, and can play the variety and tone, chords to depict intense scenes, widely used in Chinese folk bands and a variety of local opera accompaniment.

The famous song "House of Flying Daggers", "take Haiqing Swan".

Qin to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the pipa is a general term for a variety of shells stringed instruments. About the fourth century, a pear-shaped speakers, crooked four-column, four-string lute and another straight neck, five columns of five strings lute, introduced by Western Kucha region in northern China from India, also known as Kucha Pipa pipa Hu or huqin are plectrum playing. After the Song Dynasty known as the pipa. Nara, Japan House position a collection of curved lute of China's Tang Dynasty and Wu Xian. Five strings lute crooked lute in the history of assimilation.

Nguyen

Nguyen important plucked string instruments in the ensemble in common is Nguyen and the Nguyen. Conventional four-string the Nguyen range is narrow, the scale is incomplete. The modern improved Nguyen 17-24 grade, arranged in equal temperament, set of four mechanical pegs, five degrees of relationship tune a stringed instrument. Big Nguyen C, G, d, a, range C, ~ a1; zhongruan the G, d, a, e1, range G ~ e2,. Playing, left hand holding the piano Anxian take sound, right hand with fake fingernails or executive paddles bomb string.

Nguyen called in the ancient Chinese lute. Jin Dynasty called Ruanxian people who are good at playing this instrument, and later generations put called it Ruanxian, modern referred Nguyen. Tang Dynasty, Nguyen came to Japan, this Nara House position today in possession of a Tang Dynasty, inlaid with mother sandalwood Ruanxian. Tang and Song Dynasty, Nguyen shape.

Sanxian

Sanxian is important to play the stringed instruments, mainly piano bar, speakers (also known as the piano drums). Speakers on both sides of Mongolia python. Within the three-stringed lute, the outer string as the octave within the string of four or five degrees, the range of about three octaves. The traditional three-stringed lute size of two small three-stringed lute tune a stringed instrument A, d, a or d, a, d1. Big sanxian often G, d, g. The Anxian playing left hand right hand refers to the bomb to the string or plectrum to play three-stringed lute music style is lively and witty. Used for rap music, the accompaniment of local operas and folk instrumental ensemble.

Traditional solos "Acacia Order", "and Haiqing get goose".

The three-stringed lute is generally believed that originated in the Qin Dynasty. In recent years, archaeological excavations have been discovered Liao, Song, Yuan period tomb murals to play three-stringed lute.

Dulcimer

Traditional Chinese dulcimer, speakers showed a butterfly-shaped or flat trapezoid on the home two piano yards, erection of steel wire strings, 8 tone, 10 tone, 12 tone of three kinds, the range of ~ c2, f1, d1 d3, c ~ e3. Chromatic dulcimers for the reform of the modern professional orchestra. Playing the piano placed in the rack, right-hand man armed with a piano bamboo percussion on both sides of the bar code string pronunciation. Clear and melodious tone, wide range, widely used in various folk instrumental ensemble.

The traditional songs are "Dragon Boat", "Su Wu," General ".

The predecessor of the dulcimer, an ancient hit stringed instrument popular in the West Asia region, Persian Santur "(Santur), was brought to China. Since the early Qing literature describes.