Li wind instruments Lee blanket mouth

Mouth flute, Li wind instruments. Lee Lai language called columns. Popular in Hainan Li areas. Similar shape and suona rod.

In Hainan Island, five batches Li village in the mountains, is popular as kind of like a small tower vertical bamboo mouth blown instruments ─ ─ Li blanket. Every traditional festivals, folk artists from various villages often blowing it come together. Since there are very clever ventilation methods play, someone can even play a few kilometers away along the way, the music never interrupted. Lee Lai port blanket to voice translation, also known as “mouth flute,” is the people’s favorite Li Ming single reed instrument air. Legend has it that hundreds of years. Similar shape and suona rod section with a number of different sizes of short bamboo, from small to large socket. Have opened a round sound hole on each section. Lee blanket original mouth just 5 holes, the 1950s, popular music east, along the West and the East Changjiang Li blanket intersection, mostly six-tin, is about 22 centimeters, opened on the upper end of a bamboo gap mouth, insert straw or reed leaves, etc. as may be blown eight tones; popular Tongza, Baoting Li blanket along East Road, section VII was seven holes, but most previous hole as a decoration. Mouthpiece finest in the previous section, the three sides of the mouth cut the gap in the middle of a small reed thin as pronunciation. At present, the common folk mouth Lee blanket, mostly seven sections tin. Reed is back with the traditional bamboo bamboo tied after thinning, and now have switched to reed piece. Lee mouth homemade blanket occupied mostly by playing, drawn by the producer and the different needs of mouth blanket Lee also made ​​six, seven, eight, do not abalone, the tone is also different, their length, size is not one, both small pen like that big mouth of Lee blanket, there are as long as the bass suona big mouth Lee blanket. Reed used some Western instruments like the clarinet reeds, also used suona whistle, really colorful. Lee blanket mouth sounds like a tube of treble, bright and full of character, very nice, full of singing, it is appropriate performance cheerful, lively tunes. Bass plump, round, clear tenor, soft, but treble sharp, thin. Lee playing the mouth blanket, small suona same basic method, with breath control pitch and timbre, and absorb the single spit, double spit, different techniques flower tongue, portamento, staccato, staccato and so on. For the common folk in the female singing accompaniment. Li Li people very fond of mouth blanket, both in the way of farming or grazing, or in festive occasions, the mouth should be playing Lee blanket; rice planting in the future but also to play, Lai Ka think it will make rice grow healthy and strong, a good harvest. Li Li blanket more young counterparts had a special feeling, it is essential to love “matchmaker.”