History is extremely long. Qin bamboo blow our country’s oldest stringed instrument alarms, it spread in ancient China, “bamboo drums,” Southeast Asian countries of ancient wisdom of “bamboo-shaped piano” very similar. But the spread in the way place Shan, historical records unloaded until the Ming Dynasty have records. Ming Wang Qi “ternary graph ยท Used three-volume” contains: “Bamboo drums, cut Otake whom, may be three four feet long, that cut out of its body is two strings, want to drum, places pillar supporting its strings, percussion Voice for drums, suspected, that the relics of the building also. ”
Instrument History
The shape of bamboo with this piano is very similar, showing its long history, the spread has kept the original state. It can be said that China’s ancient Qin bamboo blow stringed instruments – early form of the building remains, which can be traced back to the spring and the beginning of the decade, more than 2700 years of history.
Instrument structure
Modeling simple, piano body hair with a bamboo production, total length of about 50 cm, diameter 6 cm to 10 cm, the maximum thickness to those who played the hand can grip better. Qintong bamboo leaves one or both ends, Tian Lin, are both more secure one end of stay bamboo; Nandan then both ends of the bamboo leaves. In the middle of two or three bamboo on different sides, cut out from certain sections of bamboo skin filaments strings. Each bamboo silk string length 30 cm, width 0.1 cm to 0.2 cm, two string spacing of 2.5 cm. Both ends of the string is still connected with bamboo and bamboo rings or thin wire with a tight coupling to enable easy peeling cylinder. The same side of the two strings constitute a group, a piano string usually have two or three groups. Each string will have whittled down the barrel arc plane, two branches in Chikuma, MA 3.5 cm long, 0.8 cm high. Two strings embedded in the middle of a small piece of wooden slats as “bridge”, so that the two strings are connected to each other when resonance strike outs. “Bridge”, respectively, under the open tube has a small round sound hole, diameter 1 cm. Stay in the piano section of a body from the top 10 cm, also opened by a slightly larger oval sound hole.
Way of playing
Playing, sitting or standing can be taken, but also while walking, while dancing, while playing. Left-handed grip headstock, right hand execution of small bamboo sticks, a small stick or chopstick to pronounce against the strings, piano tail strike to make the whole bamboo vibration can also be pronounced. Each set of two bamboo piano chord as homonyms, mobile support Chikuma chord chord length can be changed to adjust the level of tune a stringed instrument, the interval between each chord group is usually a major second or minor third relationship, range six degrees or so. Left thumb open and close the headstock by the sound hole, changing the barrel column vibration, the bamboo musical instrument piano as gas alarms, sound changes accordingly. Bamboo piano and drums Viscio pronunciation. Qin Mei hit ground openings, may issue with percussion drums drum sounds similar to the heart; bounce when closed, issue and percussion drums drum rim approximate sound; clicking the strings, and percussion drums pronounce it waist drum sound the same; if the same manner and with hammers strike opened and closed by the sound hole, if it had drums percussion drum edges, drum heart, waist and other different parts of the drum, timbre varied, both soft and sonorous. Bamboo is a piano chord Ming, gas alarms, body Ming as one of the instruments, the use of pitch, timbre and rhythm changes, and can demonstrate a variety of different sound effects and atmosphere. Bamboo can be used solo or ensemble piano, playing forms vary. In Nandan area, bamboo piano hammers strike ground and use, multi-ensemble along with the drums, commonly used in funeral mourning; in TianLin are security and other places, bamboo usual strike chord piano playing method, used for solo, during the Lunar New Year’s Eve, New Year New Year festive entertainment occasions or have played, sometimes with drums ensemble. There TianLin folk artists such as land-Aner.
