Speaking flute, people always think of the mouth to play the kind of instrument. However, in the Hainan Li and Miao Autonomous Prefecture of more than six hundred thousand Li there is a unique fellow to play the flute with his nose , so called nose flute is distinctive edges Li Ming gas instrument , named because playing with nostrils . Li said that although the language of labor , Tuen card round Kazakhstan.
A long history
Musical tone air -ming edges , the nose flute blowing it said. Blow holes located across the central section of the pipe end , pop Hainan Li , Li language also called ” although labor “, ” Tun card “, ” Larry each Dan .” Long history of a thousand years ago have been circulating in Hainan folk .
Generated on the nose flute , and there is still a tear-jerking love story. Legend has it that long ago , a pair of Li youth Fingers love. Pro before marriage , the girl taken to the betel nut , is the main cave discovered , was arrested, Cave main girl is forced to marry him hard . The girl refused, he was locked up. Young man looking for ten days and ten nights , and finally found the girl locked in a small cave in the jungle . They can not meet, the young man had to sing teaser . After Cave Lord knows , the young man caught up again , his tongue cut out , banished to a distant mountain forests shortage , over a month , the boy appeared in the side of the cave . He cut a white bamboo, blowing his nose pain and long for affection . No thanks girl felt, deeply moved . Later , the young man was killed Cave concentrating on the go . Died Trustee transferred to the nose flute girl , and soon , the girl escaped from the jaws of death , the young man kneeling on the grave , distraught, the young man during his lifetime playing the nose flute music playing over again . And then , the girl carries a nose flute , the young man buried in the tomb . Later, nose flute then passed down from generation to generation .
Zhang Qing long with “Li Qi Ji Wen ” contains: ” unmarried men and women who gathered every room in the spring and summer wilderness , mouth harp playing male and female get the nose flute , delivery sing songs Lebanon , there are those who fall in love , men and women were getting Cou one that provides coupled with its incompatibility , not too strong . ” visible , nose flute is a musical instrument commonly used to express love when Li young men and women will play . When night falls, the silence of the home village in Lebanon , from time to time came the slim and quiet study on three bursts , which is Li family guy calls his girlfriend at the flute , or the answer to her boyfriend of the girl , perhaps a couple rely on under areca turns blowing nose flute to tell each other love . In Lebanon home, blowing the nose flute is excellent to engagement soon, also interchangeable nose flute as tokens of love keepsake.
” Fanshe mingling map test” : . ” Nose flute , cut bamboo tubes, orifices four-hole , two inches long can foot , through the holes in the bamboo at the first blow on the nose of the cross , voicing compete in the disciplines. cover also eh . was Xiao also. hemp lead up to the night clubs , the smell and female Yue Fan , cited the same place . ” ” female long , constitutive house alone . nose flute , harmonica, men and women to reconcile with each other for a long time and meaning harmonic , tell all parents are . ”
2 shapes structure
Flute works carnation production, its length, thickness different specifications, folk and more without the use of a section of thin bamboo pipe , tube length 60 cm to 70 cm, diameter 1.6 cm or so, at a distance of 8 cm at both ends of the nozzle , each press to open a round sound hole . Either by the sound hole opened in the side of the tube body , can also be open before and after each one into . If you use both ends of bamboo with bamboo , need to open a section across the center of the circular through hole ; using a multi-section bamboo production , they have to get through the bamboo . Blow holes in the bamboo thin client.
3 Playing Method Editor
When playing, vertical tube body position, press the hole left thumb , right thumb , index finger pressed holes and bottom outlet . The upper end of the ramp on the right side of the blow hole nostril nostrils the breath vibrating tube by air column and pronunciation. Sometimes it can be blocked by the left nostril hand playing . Blowholes nose flute addition , the connecting pipe has three vents bottom nozzle can blow out the following : g, a, c1, d1, e1, g1 six tone. Smaller volume . Can also play through your mouth , slightly more volume . Nose flute tone quiet , muffled , sounds appealing , like Xiao bass , but softer, treble weak, the use of rich overtones , can blow three -octave range , and can play the vibrato , portamento . Sometimes difficult to control because the atmosphere , the music seems to be absent appear intermittently fleeting phenomenon , which sounds more Sound of charm. Blowing nose flute almost midnight when the whole village could be heard faintly . Commonly used in the nose flute solo, on -outs, and on stage , become dance props.
4 existing condition
In August 1980 , when the Ethnic Arts Festival in Guangdong Province , Hainan ledong theatrical dance team performances , ” nose flute Love” highly distinctive . Fingers showing on stage at night , as the silver moonlight . Li young men and women dressed in costumes , while the soft nose flute sounded , while dancing. Home in Lebanon , but also a kind of popular employer nose flute sound sing songs , in addition to singing the lyrics , but sometimes only sing tunes.
In Li folk , occasionally to see a long tube body nose flute , the longest of which were as high as 160 cm , need to lay playing with toes by following the sound hole . This proboscis flute, and now only a handful of elderly people to play , it is very difficult in general Li family epigenetic competent .
5 tunes meaning
There are many fixed nose flute tunes, they are mostly short- untitled song lyric , every song has a certain meaning, from generation to generation in the Li people , but it is not the same all over . The young men and women in Li , the nose flute playing is mostly improvised , which tunes also vary according to different wonder Li girl songs and voices , able to identify a unique study on three of his lover in a lot of study on three in the past . “Throw a rock exploration depth, blowing nose flute try Lennon song heart .” Phrase can also be seen from Lebanon ballad , nose flute and Li
Young love life has a close relationship . Li girl blowing nose flute is also a skilled , when every slack , festivals or love, when the young man blew whirring ( vertical bamboo flute ) , the girl then sounded the nose flute repartee .
