Our national musical instruments into wind instruments, string instruments, percussion and stringed pull four categories.
Wind Instruments wind instruments sounding body of mostly bamboo or wood. Depending on its start-up method, can be divided into three categories: first, to air from blowing in the mouthpiece excite string vibrations have flute, flute (Qudi and bangdi), whistle and so on. The second category, air is blown through reeds make string vibrations have suona, sea flute, pipes, tubes and pipes and other twin. The third category, airflow caused by reed string vibrations have Sheng, hold Sheng, Pai Sheng Bau like. Due to the different pronunciation of search, so the type and tone of the instrument is extremely colorful, strong personality. And a variety of different musical instruments playing skills and different regions, ethnic, age and players, so that ethnic instrumental in the formation of extremely rich wind instrument playing skills in the long course of development, has a unique playing style and genre. Typical instruments: Sheng, Lusheng, Pai Sheng, Flute, flute, pipes, Bau, Xun, suona, flute. All instruments: Leaves, paper, bamboo membrane tube (the Dong), snail flute (Zhuang), strokes Army (Han), spit good (Jingpo), Sibu Si, the amount (Kazak), whistle (Han), Tree Pila tube (Miao), bamboo number (Nu people), flute (Han), shakuhachi, nose flute (Gaoshan), flute (Han), Panpipe (Han), Dong flute (the Dong), bamboo whistle (Han ), panpipes (Han), poly (Khmu), chi (Han), Xun (Han), Tony (Tibetan), show sharp (Miao), flute sister (Miao), Hasty Kui (Tujia), Piper up (Li), (mouth Lee) blanket (Li), suona (Han), tubes (Han), double tube (Han), throat (Han), Mount cylinder (Miao), sheng (Han), Lusheng ( Miao, Yao, Dong), indeed cable (Hani), Bau (Hani), Whistle (Oroqen).
Plucked instruments plucked instruments of the horizontal and vertical sub-categories. Horizontal, such as: koto (zither and redeployment zither), koto, dulcimer and duxianqin like; vertical, such as: pipa, Nguyen, banjo, sanxian, Liuqin, Tamboura and Nie and other wooden bar. Playing instrument sounds bright and crisp. Right hand wearing false nails and plectrum two ways of playing methods. Right skills been more fully, such as bombs, pick, roll, round, hook, hand, button, draw, brush, minutes, Picks, shot, lifting, picking and so on. Rich right skills, but also facilitated the left press, Yin, shake, evil, twisted, push, pull, development volts, vertical, and other skills from. In addition to playing a musical instrument duxianqin, the most rhythmic and strong, but short reverberation, shall roll outs or round playing long tones. Plucked instruments generally little change in strength. In addition to the band Guqin volume is weak, the other instrument sounds were strong penetration. In addition duxianqin plucked instruments, but mostly code (or column) into pitch, vertical with phase pitch products division, divided into non-relative, fretless two kinds. Except pentatonic ordinary zither arrangement endures, generally easy to transpose. Playing all kinds of musical overtones have a good effect. In addition duxianqin outside, you can play two-tone, chord, lute tone and pitch jump. Of playing a musical instrument playing many genres, playing techniques of names and symbols are not the same. Typical instruments: lute, zither, dulcimer, lyre (guqin), hot Wapu, Tamboura, Nguyen, Liuqin, three-stringed lute, banjo, playing a Boolean. All instruments: metal mouth strings (Hmong) (Kirgiz), bamboo mouth chord (Yi), bows (Gaoshan), pipa (Han), Nguyen (Han), banjo (Han), Qin Qin (Han), Liuqin (Han), Banjo (Han), Rubab (Uygur), Tamboura (Kazak), wooden bar Nie (Tibetan), Zheng (Han), koto (Han), Kayagum (Korean), vertical Harp , Yan column harp.
Percussion
Variety of ethnic percussion, rich skills, with a distinctive national style. Depending on their pronunciation can be divided into: 1, copper ring, such as: large gong, small gong, gongs, large and small cymbals, hitting the bell; 2, sound wood, such as: board, clapper, wooden fish; 3, leather, such as: the size of the drum, Ban Gu, ranked drums, elephant-foot drums. Not only is the rhythm of percussion instruments, percussion groups and each group can independently play, to bring music content, dramatic plot and aggravated expressive music plays an important role. In our Western ethnic percussion orchestra also often used. Ethnic percussion can be divided into two fixed pitch and without a fixed pitch. No fixed pitch, such as: large, snare drum, large and small gongs, large and small cymbals, plates, bang, bell and other fixed pitch, such as: tuning cylinder drum, ranked drums, gongs and the like. Typical instruments: percussions (drums), touch the bell, cylinder drums, tuning cylinder drum, drums, Korean long drums, small gong gong, snare drum, drum row, Dabo (tambourine), cymbals. All instruments: Clapper (Han), pestle (Gaoshan), Buzz (Li), pear slices (Han), wax dare (Dai), Chimes (Han), wooden drum (the Wa), Cech (Jino), cymbals (Han), gongs (Han), gongs (Han), ten gongs (Han), Star (Han) – touch the bell, bell (Han), bells (Han), even the car stick (Han), call head (Han), scared Gui (Han), plate (Han), Muyu (Han), the Fan Wu (Han), France bell (Tibetan), waist bell (Manchu), flower pots drum (Han), bronze drums (strong, Gelao, Buyi, Dong, Shui, Miao, Yao), foot drums (Dai), Nagra drum (Uygur), Yu Gu (Han), plug spit (Jino), Beijing percussions (Han), drum (Han) long drum (Korean), Dabo (Uygur), peace drum (Manchu), the amount of (Tibetan), rattle (Han), dulcimer (Han), bamboo piano (Yao), dance to (Khmu), Sa Ba Yi (Uygur).
Bowed Instruments
Mainly referring to stringed bowed instrument musical instruments. Although its history is shorter than the other ethnic musical instruments, but beautiful sounds, there is a very rich expressive, high performance skills and artistic level, bowed instrument is widely used in solo, trio, ensemble and accompaniment. Most of the two string bowed instrument with four strings as few: four Hu, Hu Ge, Ai Jieke like. Most Qintong Mongolia snakeskin, python, sheepskin; a few planks such as: coconut Hu, Banhu like. Few are flat or flat round such as: dances and, falling Hu, banhu, with its tone and some elegant, soft and some clear and bright; some bold, cheerful, full of singing. Typical instruments: erhu, Banhu, gehu, dances and music, Ai Jieke, Pipa, Zhonghu, gaohu. All instruments: music saw (Russ), cable port string (Tibetan), erhu (Han), gaohu (Han), Pipa (Han), three Hu (Han), sihu (Han), Banhu (Han), falling piano (Han), falling Hu (Han), haegeum (Han), coconut Hu (Hans), beat Qin (Han), erxian (Han), big drum (Han), dances and (Mongolian), maguhu ( Zhuang), Ai Jieke (Uygur), Sa it Seoul (Uygur), corbel piano (the Dong), duxianqin (the Wa), Ya Zheng (Korean), yazheng (Han).
