Coconut Hu Han Ming wipe outs string instruments. In Chaozhou music, also known as Nuisance (pa) strings. Shapes such as Banhu. Speakers produced using coconut shells, thin face mask Paulownia board, back to open five out of the sound hole. Horses with small shells (or bamboo). Tuned in g, d1 or c1, g1, range g ~ g2. Vigorous tone for ensemble or accompaniment. Is Li Han-ming bow string instruments. Popular in Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and other provinces. The use of music in Guangdong Chaozhou music and Fujian, Hainan, local opera, folk art band.
1 Introduction
Yehu is Li Han-ming bow string instruments. Known as the tide mention, also known as Hu, Chaozhou music called “Nuisance chord.” Banhu shape, tone sounding for ensemble or accompaniment. Popular in the province Hainan, Guangdong, Fujian and so on.
Li people playing a favorite folk stringed instrument, holidays, festive gatherings, must pull Yehu ensemble with other instruments or singing, dancing accompaniment.
Beijing China Art Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Music Instrument Museum Collection Yehu multi-branch, where a centimeter long, flat-topped Yehu headstock is loaded, “Chinese musical illustrations” in large pictures.
2 historical development
Early 18th century, has appeared in folk music kind of Chaozhou music. “Book of General Qing continued,” contains:. “. Tide mention black wooden handle, coconut shell as tanks, Chi clam shells as columns, and erhu pronunciation is very quiet and peaceful, also Guangdong instrument” in the 1930s, and Guangdong ditty played absorbed and become the Guangdong opera and rap music musical accompaniment. Sound soft and honest.
3 range features
Yehu range of about two octaves. Sound soft and honest, full of local color, Yehu also used traditional folk music musical genres Guangdong Chaozhou big drums, Fuzhou Chating Juban music, Fujian opera, Taiwanese ten sounds, music and Fujian Longyan Yongding static panels, and other places of ten Shanghang music classes, but also for the Guangdong Chaozhou, Chaozhou string and folk poetry and many other opera accompaniment. For playing music and a variety of Guangdong, Guangdong opera, folk accompaniment.
Adopt seated while playing Qintong placed on the left leg (or legs caught in the middle), Anxian piano left hand, the right hand horsetail bow sandwiched between two strings pull-outs. Yehu relationship by five degrees tune a stringed instrument, often tuned in g, d1, c1, g1, or a, e1, range g-g2, there are two octaves.
Yehu pronunciation deep, rich flavor. Plus attract foreign dulcimer, with traditional pipa, zheng, become a very local characteristics of instrumental family, laid the foundation for the Chaozhou music instruments.
4 shape structure
Yehu shapes, materials, technology and opera banhu similar. Piano bar just a little thin and short, length 67 cm, making use of mahogany and other hardwoods. Shape and banhu approximation, piano body length of 60 cm to 70 cm. Qintong (resonance tube) with most of the production from a coconut shell, mouth mask with Paulownia sheet before the panel on the back of a semi-circular coconut shell, there is money to open a window by the sound eye consisting of five small vents.
Yehu small shells used as a horse, but also useful Chikuma’s. Set two pegs, strings slightly smaller than the Banhu chord with horsetail bow string pulled between two outs.
Headstock, piano bar with a hardwood production, more use of mahogany or rosewood. Top headstock with a flat top, or engraved with the leading meniscus is decorated. Piano bar ends tapped two axes, with mahogany or boxwood pegs into a wooden, conical or spinning mallet-shaped, engraved with straight shank petal pattern, device Qintong parallel direction. Piano bar is longer, mostly cylindrical, there are semi-cylindrical (former level after the round), the coarse linen, piano bar located in central stringed jin, coconut shell in the lower load and exposed tailpiece.
Panel set to have the bridge center, multi-purpose small shells for traditional horse, and later with a bamboo bridge the bridge, is also useful in Fuzhou roll horses. Zhang has two stringed. Bows with a thin bamboo rod ends tied in ponytail hair bow, bow length 60 cm.
5 ways of playing
Adopt seated while playing Qintong placed on the left leg (or legs caught in the middle), Anxian piano left hand, the right hand horsetail bow sandwiched between two strings pull-outs. Yehu relationship by five degrees tune a stringed instrument, often tuned in g, d1, c1, g1, or a, e1, range g-g2, there are two octaves. Sound soft, rich, full of local color, is the Li people loved folk stringed instrument, holidays, festive gatherings, must pull Yehu ensemble with other instruments or singing, dancing accompaniment. Yehu also used traditional folk music musical genres Guangdong Chaozhou big drums, Fuzhou Chating Juban music, Fujian opera, Taiwanese ten sounds, music and Fujian Longyan Yongding static panels, etc. Shanghang ten classes and music, but also for Guangdong Chaozhou, Chaozhou and other stringed poetry and folk opera accompaniment.
Beijing China Art Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Music Instrument Museum Collection Yehu multi-branch, where a length of 67 cm, flat-topped Yehu headstock is loaded, “Chinese musical illustrations” in large pictures.
6 Chaozhou Yehu
Chaozhou Yehu unique. Coconut shell do chord (speaker), coupled with a shell decorated chord, there is a clam to do string codes, a look that is by the sea instruments, very local characteristics. Chaozhou musical instruments, are also considered Yehu most popular. In Chaozhou, whether urban, rural, offices, schools, railway stations, docks, Forestry, posts, can be seen at the beginning, that is, Hong Kong and South Pacific Islands, where there are footprints influx of people to reach places, there Yehu. Yehu, often linked with the fate of the poor people together. Over the past number of diaspora artists, with its living Quartet. Film “Forgotten Wife”, the artists that involves singing, not in the street pulling Yehu, singing “…… playing a burden too Siam, how to send money earned there, good back Tangshan marry his wife” do? People in labor apart from singing from the music.
Yehu is a friend of the poor, but do not be disgusted Regal collar. Annan rich shells can be noble, parquet inlay bird, put it dazzling dress, hanging in the den; peasant brothers can also buy a “stripped-down” of hanging in the cottage, tastes. Old people, lack of strength, but it can also Lara Yehu relieve loneliness. Therefore, the elderly like it. Learn Yehu even pull Debu ideal, but it sounds gentle, little interference up to hear some “tread water car” like the gossip, but also get understanding. Therefore, the student movement music, often from a Yehu start time, it is “enlightenment teacher” by beginners welcome.
Sanxian elegant, pipa, zheng, such as when playing off the disc beads, and a handful of coconut Hu would like a thread, the bright pearl stringing, and leave it to gather, very harmonious. It fit with the head string, small suona together, but also like a layer of background, these high music melody, like a heavy tone pattern set off out, a lot more level.
Yehu, opera requires it, percussion need it, in order to calm the Chinese Confucian music need it, and even that set up the dojo, do “merit” of the scribes, monks like it. “Licorice and Barilla,” Yi people put Yehu called tidal music in the “licorice.”
Yehu, easy to get started, but it is extremely difficult to pull well, there have been many good head Chaoshan chord hand, but there are several well-known Yehu hand? Been considered mediocre Fanfan Yehu only musicians know it’s difficult. “See the light concentrated only see real skill.”
7 Life Application
Tidal wave of people really like the music, the people, many of whom will be pulling the strings, blowing shells, and most common, is the most widely used instrument Yehu. Whether it is the opera or music groups tide has Yehu hand, in the countryside den or “idle time”, people often pull Yehu merry.
Hu coconut, coconut shell with large polished peeled, cut third straight, thin Paulownia board cover behind a large carved an egg through the flowers, as a resonance box. Then loaded on a long chord, pole mounted on two strings lemniscate Zhen, fitted PIP strings, coupled with horsetail bow string, and a clam shell shade cover to withstand the picture-in-line for the board Tong ” chord horse “from. Coconut bow on the left side of the string to pull off a small piece of local drop rosin, the strings tight and twisted adjusted scale, you can pull outs.
Coconut solid, Tong loose foam board, voice resonate issued HongRun, like the sound emitted by the urn as well, so the tide is called Yehu “Om string” or “roar chord.” Yehu can ensemble, the opera group, orchestra and folk tidal tide ensemble, are ultimately Yehu. Although erxian sandalwood how shrill voice, violin how loud sounds, how melodious Qin, how flute sound beating, are not flooded Yehu of music. The masses pull Yehu, more solos. Whether it is in the “idle time”, the banyan tree, pond, shed Laos, people often took Yehu from the music. Individual musicians, often with only a handful of coconut Hu, Heung over, the door to door, on the left flank to the top chord, singing and drawing, which is the city dialect called “shake feces belly.” Inter-night, if it is in the pond shed, coconut Hu Shan Liu pulled in, the sound can be heard farther, such as pulling really well as resentment, such as complaints, moving thoughts. Yehu also the influx of people introductory chord music student movement, this string is not afraid beginner Luanla, freshly Yehu It also welcomes people Dora, Dora the only fast “open sound.” The so-called “open sound” is a small hiss from the original tone gradually become HongRun meaning.
Getting the tone poems (music) and more widespread is the most familiar and most simple “workers work six feet Gongche work.” After the founding of the influx of music instead of music notation chord poetry, but there are still many people who pull the strings still customary to use “gongchepu.”
