Musical instruments with membrane Wang Du

Wang Du, word Yonhap, Huizhou Wuyuan (now Jiangxi Wuyuan) dafan people. Ming painter. Bozhou Limu. Work books, paintings, diction, and especially painting skills. In his later years to double chopsticks ghostwriter. Landscapes, figures, dyed ecstatic. Since poetry: “Since knowledge peerless Yuan Dan, a few years candid in rivers and lakes, the old fox t come without a brush, double chopsticks can play feet figure.”

A historical figure
Wang Du [out] word Yonhap, Wuyuan (now Jiangxi Wuyuan) people. Thin thirty Limu. Work books, paintings, diction, and especially painting skills. In his later years to double tendons ghostwriter. Landscapes, figures, dyed quite good. – “Huizhou Chi”

Two folk instruments

Musical instruments with membrane  Wang Du
Wang Du, also known as Wong drums, long drum, horizontal drum. Mixed Yao Ming hit film musical. Popular in Guangdong Province and even South Yao Autonomous County and other places.
Wang Du, also known as Wong drums, long drum, horizontal drum
Wang Du, also known as Wong drums, long drum, horizontal drum

3 historical retrospective
From the ancient waist drum, when the Southern Song Dynasty have been widely circulated in the folk. Qing Li Zhang, “Lian Yang eight soil exhaust note” contains: “(Pai Yao) Lantern strike gongs Laos long drum, jump for the state, its long drum-shaped head of medium and small, Wong coated leather, rope hanging neck, or cloud also ancient system also. ”

4 shape structure
Drum body with whole Paulownia, fir dug from the system, at both ends of Mongolia with goatskin, yellow or sticking, leather fixed on two circular hoops, covered on both ends of the drum mouth ends leather tether on the pull, the seven small bamboo were set into the adjacent two ropes, move small bamboo adjustable drum skin tension. Wang are elongated cylindrical, its shape and the public Wong Kim Soo Au Yao drum lines somewhat similar. A total length of 90 cm, the drum body a little thin in the middle, the ends thicker. Flared end, diameter 22 cm, the other side was a bowl, diameter 19 cm. Drum body looks coated with red paint, painted with gold ornamentation ethnic patterns.

5 playing method
Before playing, first applied to wet Wong drumhead, so both ends of the drum sound is four or five degrees apart interval, you can issue a loud, rich sound. When playing the drums with Xiegua chest, flared end of the drumhead toward the upper left, left hand holding a bamboo blow outs drumhead, the right hand slap drumhead, playing side by side hit the dance, which is the Yao “Wang are encouraged . “Often two or more collective performance for playing, and more for festivals, folk activities “Pan Wang Yuan” and celebrate the harvest and other occasions. It is “Wang are encouraged,” the main accompaniment of musical instruments, but also a dance props.