North Korea Seoul, also known as copy Wu. Mongolian stringed instrument bow to pull. Sympathy toward Seoul for Mongolian meaning. Also known as the West that stem toward Seoul, meaning that resonates with a spoon. In many shapes, sound soft deep, rich prairie features. Can be used for solo, ensemble or dance, rap accompaniment. Hing’an popular in eastern Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, jirem League, Union and West Zhaowuda Bayannao’er Alashan other places.
An origin of the legend
Horqin district in eastern Inner Mongolia, circulating such a story: there was a good-hearted herdsman, holding a spoon to scoop water, an inattentive hands of the spoon off the ground to a good sound to hear, and he was inspired by , on the use made of a hollowed wood toward Seoul piano. Since then, this will pull on stringed Mongolian steppe and yurts spread.
2 toward Seoul History
Towards the origin of the fire appeared in the Song Dynasty Seoul do not think the type of violin (Hu Wu Tours, suddenly Wu children). It appeared in the middle of the 12th century, the Mongols created bowed instrument with a prairie characteristics. “Genghis Khan Proverbs” contains: “You (Genghis Khan) has Hu Wu children, children copy Wu wonderful music playing.” Description toward Seoul early literature has been used in the era of Genghis Khan (1162-1227 years) moved in at the Palace of Mongolia.
3 shape features
Then toward Seoul has two styles, one kind of kept the Hull prototype, but the lower end of the piano box has become flat, single skin, and West Hu more approximate; another long piano bar was inserted into the inverted trapezoidal piano box, double skin, horsetail strings, horsetail bow. In many shapes toward Seoul, the resonance box, headstock, piano bar, pegs, the bridge, strings and bows and other components. Resonance box style is more, there is a wide inverted trapezoidal lower sharp, rectangular shovel style, as well as scoop-shaped or scoop-shaped and so on. Inverted trapezoidal, rectangular box surrounded by borders and piano-shaped scoop, scoop-shaped box piano back, both with hardwood production, positive or positive, the back sides of the Mongolian sheepskin, horsehide or calf skin, about 20 cm wide. Those on both sides of the skin, the skin surrounding both before and after the cross-linking Paul with leather cord taut. Positive skin who kept to the back of thin wood, board opened the central part of the sound hole round. Headstock, piano bar with a piece of hardwood production, total length of about 95 cm, the top of the headstock, multi-carved with dragons (chi fanatic, the ancient legend of an animal, is a dragon’s) head, Chi Ma double no head or headstock flat ornaments and so on. Opened below the headstock string slot, there are two sides set pegs (so each one). Hardwood pegs made of conical or flat ear. Piano bar slender, flat front after the round. Leather a little character on the central square wooden home Qin Ma, was the bridge, the bridge is higher, sometimes played by the Mongolian knife inserted in the lower strings, in order to adjust the tone and volume. Zhang two beams of horsetail for strings, chord chord from the slot below the dragon mouth piercing. Bows wooden rod straight bar, the two ends of the bow with horsetail hair, bow hair is not taut. In these type of piano, inverted trapezoidal structure toward Seoul is relatively simple, and easy to pastoral production, horsehide and horsetail resources are extremely rich. Both sides of the mask toward the music of horsehide, its tone is also different from sheepskin or python, Chi Mei with horsetail bow to pull the string and cause vibration Au horsehide make toward Seoul flavor is rich grasslands, mountains and wild sound showing gas and horse potent, there is a deep and fascinating.
Art Institute of Music in Beijing, China Institute of Chinese musical instrument museum, a collection of several pieces toward Seoul. Made with rosewood which a resonance box inverted trapezoid, surrounded by framed panel carved with Mongolian design patterns, piano box length 26.5 cm, width 25.2 cm on thick 7.6 cm, positive Mongolia to horsehide, painted on gold paint pattern ornamentation, thin wood back to Mongolia, the central board to open a round sound hole, diameter 9.6 cm. Headstock, rosewood piano bar made of one piece, length 107.2 cm. Headstock is carved with horse ornaments, after the string slots open slot length 10 cm, width 1.5 cm, with two pegs on both sides (left and right one). Wooden pegs, conical, axial length 14.5 cm, straight shank engraved petal pattern, shaft top inlaid decorative piece of bone. Semicircular column for the new piano bar-shaped body, the top slightly wider, positive for Anxian fretboard, no taste, piano bar piano box and exposed the lower insert. Set wooden bridge Qin Ma, Zhang two strings. Wooden bow to bow truss ponytail. Seoul toward this election materials, technology and meticulous piano box sculpture, painting style rich, called boutique. This piano was originally a famous Beijing Opera artist Mr. Cheng Yanqiu collections, in 1958, Mr. Cheng personal possession ethnic musical instruments donated 186 countries, among them this towards Seoul.
4 playing method
When playing, who played more than sitting cross-legged on the grounds of a leg squat or kneel, the piano box is placed on the ground or back left leg, left hand supporting the piano bar, with the index finger, ring finger, little finger in the section that belly Anxian, lift up and down pressure vibrato, touch the left thumb in the string, the middle finger for vibrato, playing sound, index finger, middle finger with that roof outboard. Decline outs and the usual batch of finger food and other techniques to play chords, playing octave chatter long, five degrees, four degrees, two degrees and tone. Right hand bow, bow handle hostage at the tiger’s mouth, thumb, index finger relying bow stem, and the remaining three fingers push rod bow, bow hair tension control. Seoul North Korea relations by four degrees tune a stringed instrument for A, d, range A-d1. Sound soft, rich, belong bass. Can be used solo, instrumental ensemble or accompaniment to folk dance and rap.
5 Traditional Music
Mongolian folk, pastoralists towards Seoul playing and self-entertainment Zilazichang instruments. Early mainly used in rap accompaniment, singing folk artist hero legend, folk tale narrative poem and musical accompaniment, the performers mostly Zilazichang; modern times has been used solo, music and more traditional folk tunes. Mongolian pastoral herders toward Seoul and production, life has a close relationship, in lambing season, when the mother camel, sheep do not give young animals feeding, the shepherd will play with North Korea, Seoul “lonely camel lamb,” “poor foal “and other songs, dams are deep sadness that touched the piano, will take the initiative to give young animals feeding. Even camels and cattle sad to hear this music, and sometimes is weeping tears.
Every Mongolian Naadam, Ji obo ethnic festivals such as hair and the hair festive wedding occasions, North Korea, Seoul has is inseparable from the bowed instrument. There were famous musicians package Rasi, Luo Busang, Bala Gong and so on. Janitor music system are: “vermilion Lie”, “Gada Meilin” and “wood which Levin” and so on.
