Tuning cylinder drum percussion genus. Due to the shape of flower pots, also known as pots drums. This drum playing skills and percussions roughly the same, with a pair of mallet percussion. This drum is widely used in folk instrumental ensemble or opera accompaniment, sometimes used solo. Now absorbed the Western timpani drum cylinder features its restructuring became a pitch tuning cylinder drum. It’s a drum with a metal frame, fitted around eight deputy spiral, used to adjust the drumhead tension, change the pitch, the drum body can rotate on a metal frame, a rotatable drum body to fine-tune the pitch. In addition the following hob fitted pedal, pedal also allows the use of pitch movements. While playing, the music is often necessary, will use several methods to combine.
Tuning cylinders also known as ethnic timpani drums, drum cylinder is based on the lessons of the characteristics of Western timpani pitch from the restructuring. Wooden drum box (also use glass steel). Tuning cylinder drum divided into large, medium and small, adjustable pitch. With bass stave notation. Gupi quality and weather changes are affecting the pitch of the drum, to pay attention to when using the alignment tone.
1 Introduction
Ancient musical instruments generally have a dual function – performance and practicality. In other words, both the performance of these instruments musical instrument, but also a tool for labor productivity, or the life of appliances. As in “Annals of Ancient Music chapter” records are: “Yao Li, Naiming quality sound for music quality is effective to make the song of the mountain valleys, are based on moose leather set of pottery and drums, is pat stone. hit the stone, jade chime to like the sound of God, that dance beasts “Wen said in containers with a life – pottery, cast elk skin from the drum. The “pat stoning stone” is the ancestors to hunt stone, knocking into the sound, to the accompaniment disguised as beasts of the original dance. Again in “Han Yang Yun Biography”:. “Ear hot drink, Fou pat his back, and called Wu Wu” This record describes the interest of people drink large hair, side percussion containers filled with wine Fou, the side singing sky . The ancient stone chime may stem from some kind of flake stone tools. It can be envisaged that’s their first long-term labor process, gradually found some stone tools can sound like the producer can be used as musical instruments, then invented the chime. Usefulness of the instrument not only in the original production of certain musical instruments or living Appliances, and people use them to pass some specific living. Such as drumming expedition, Ming Jin close array, bell Drum, Dageng timekeeping, paving the way, drumming Shengtang so on.
2 classification
Some minority still retains love to play the opening chord of information transfer in China, opening chord has become a tool to express love and keepsake. Instrument development and social well-developed and improving productivity are closely related. Evolved from stone to metal chime chime and bell metals appear in the Stone Age is impossible, only when humans mastered before a higher smelting technology. Only when the invention and development of sericulture and silk reeling industry, it may have a “wire attached to the wood on the” piano, Joseph, zither. Instruments Qin Dynasty, found in literature there are nearly 70 kinds. Only in the “Book of Songs”, a book that is mentioned 29 kinds, there are 21 kinds of percussion drum, bell, gong, chime, pottery, bells, etc., playing musical instruments have flute, pipe, six kinds Xun, sheng, etc., playing stringed instruments there are two kinds of piano, Joseph and so on. Due to greatly increase the variety of musical instruments, so have the instruments according to the different materials in the Zhou Dynasty is divided into time: gold, stone, earth, leather, silk, wood, gourd, bamboo eight categories, called “octave” classification. Sui County in Hubei tomb of Marquis Yi underground music halls, save 124 ancient musical instruments. Both instruments weighing five thousand kilos giant –64 pieces bells, or in the modeling, fabrication and painting is very delicate drums, panpipes, Sheng, Joseph, have revealed to us the musical culture of the Warring States China status of highly developed, it is glorious to witness the creation of the ancient Chinese musical instrument. Since the Qin and Han dynasties, and emerging new musical instruments. Such as the emergence of a new type of bomb stringed Qin – “string drum used by peddlers and Drums of the people.” Chord is a round drum used by peddlers speakers, pipa straight shank, then to the Han Dynasty developed into “Han Pipa” four strings twelve columns, also known as “Ruanxian.”
The Chinese nation is a good absorption of the nation, since the Han, extensively absorb a large number of exotic instruments. Such as the Han Dynasty (BC 140 – before 87 years) when Zhang Qian Western incoming cross-blow (also known as the flute); Emperor Ling of Han incoming vertical harp (once called Hu harp; Jin Dynasty about 350 years ago after AD from Xinjiang, Gansu, passed along the “crooked pipa,” the Ming Dynasty passed the dulcimer and suona, etc. These exotic instruments, through continuous improvement, so that they gradually become China’s national instrument an important member of a large family in Chinese musical instruments history, it is worth noting that the emergence pull stringed much later than percussion, wind instruments and playing stringed instruments. According to historical records, the Tang Dynasty (618-907) to appear with bamboo rolling of the “rolling koto” and “Xi Qin” (in Song for “Ji Qin”), Song Ji Qin’s bow with a ponytail pull-outs, and the emergence of the “erhu” in the name, such as Song Shen Kuo in his “Dream Pool Essays,” Cloud:. “horsetail violin with Chinese car, the song sound like a complaining Chanyu. “since the Yuan Dynasty, develop into various types of bowed instrument on the basis of Xi piano, violin on China’s” Blow, playing, playing, pull the “four musical instruments, after a long historical period after the founding of New China, the sound of the instrument of heritage impure, temperament is not uniform, the volume imbalance, swapping inconvenient pitch between standard fixed pitch instrument is not uniform, the lack of comprehensive band aspects such as lack of bass, a lot of exploration and reform, has made great achievements, and the emergence of a number of results.
3 musical origins
Chinese musical instruments, percussion oldest, and occupies an important position. Traditionally, divided into drums, gongs, cymbals, boards and clock five, Zoe manufacturing materials to points, can be divided into metal, wood and leather categories. Their skills and expressive playing extremely rich, distinctive sound, not only the instrument’s rhythmic strong, and has a very deep appeal, especially with a strong national colors. Folk music Juban drums, percussion Chaozhou, southern Jiangsu and percussion, Hebei and Liaoning advocate blowing song, etc., both are known for percussion. In modern Chinese Orchestra in Clocks rarely used. A drum musical instruments: historical records, the earliest drum percussion to occur, the Yin Ruins Oracle have their own “drum” word. Drum wide variety of musical instruments, crafting, playing a different approach, there is a wealth of expression, except for the ensemble or accompaniment, certain types of music are also used as a solo instrument. Drum Dagu (Iarge drum), also known as drum drum lobby for larger drum diameter in a general drumhead Chiban more. By the upper and lower ends of wooden drums Mongolian area equal to two leather made. Generally placed on the legs of the wooden playing percussion drumhead when played with two mallets and pronunciation. Sounds deep and thick. Tuning cylinder drum Dingyin Ganggu: tuning cylinder drum, bass drum may be set to sound, according to the cylinder drum <pots Drums> Upgrade from. The band often with two or three as a group, a group of more than two tones, and the case of fixed-based sound, a set of three subordinate increased tone, tone on tone or under any other tenor like. Two gongs musical instruments: gong is the one most widely used percussion, originally popular in Central Asia and Southeast Asia, in the early sixth century BC into China, was called “sand gong.” With the development of opera art, spread over a long period and improved to become a musical gong has a rich performance. Many types of gongs, gong and some with fixed pitch, tone rises after some gong strike, strike the gong sounds and some lower. Gong is a musical instrument body vibration, simple structure, a circular arc gong body, usually surrounded by a border, with the central part of the mallet percussion, vibration sound. Gongs Yunluo cloud gong gongs with fixed pitch percussion, folk called nine sound the gong. Ten face generic small gong gongs, suspended between wooden frame, or the wood frame arrived at the table, the right hand with a small mallet percussion, (large gongs, use wooden stand on stage) its upright arrangement vary. Variety of ethnic percussion, rich skills, with a distinctive national style.
4 structures
The drum body, drumheads, drum set sound system and Chui and other components. Materials: drum body: metal structures; Gupi: cattle, sheep, animal skin can be, or the use of synthetic materials. Drums Chui: Short wood hammer. According need to decide whether to play at one end of the package to the elastic material. Instrument features: the case of a single film-ming instruments expensive. Timpani may issue a fixed frequency (ie pitch) of sound, and the ability to change the pitch within five degrees of pitch range. Sound soft, plump, volume can be controlled, the intensity may behave differently in different music content, and sometimes even directly play the melody. Playing method is divided into two kinds of single-outs and roll-outs, single Kanata for metronomic accompaniment, you can imitate thunder roll-outs, and the realistic effect. As the colors of timpani percussion, its rich expressive power far from ordinary percussion can not match. Timpani is the predecessor of ancient Arabia’s 纳嘎拉 drums, spread to Europe since the 17th century, it has been fixed instruments in a symphony orchestra percussion part, is an important color of the accompaniment of musical instruments, is also suitable for other types of bands. Timpani divided on the specifications of large, medium and small three, usually set in the symphony orchestra in three to four, by a musician playing the drums themselves can achieve harmony effect. On the surface, almost considered most vulnerable timpani playing musical instruments, but in fact drummer requires considerable self-confidence and sense of time in order to successfully manage it. Drummer often silently meditating for some time, and then counting the chapter, issued a deafening blow in the non-intervention when the mouth is not the slightest error will be known.
5 Voices
Depending on their pronunciation can be divided into: 1, copper ring, such as: large gong, small gong, gongs, large and small cymbals, touch the bell; 2, rang wood, such as: board, clapper, wooden fish, etc.; 3, leather, such as: the size of the drum, Ban Gu, ranked drums, foot drums and so on. 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 no fixed pitch. No fixed pitch, such as: large, snare drum, large and small gongs, large and small cymbals, plates, bang, bells 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 drum, a small gong gong, snare drum, drum row, Lee Shi Wen (tambourine), big cymbals. All instruments: Clapper (Han), pestle (Gaoshan), Buzz (Li), pear slices (Han), December dare (Dai), Chimes (Han), wooden drum (Wa), Cech (Jino), cymbals (Han), gong (Han), gongs (Han), ten gongs (Han), star (Han) – touch the bell, bell (Han), bells (Han), and even car stick (Han), call head (Han), scared boudoir (Han), plate (Han), Muyu (Han), I the Fan (Han), France bell (Tibetan), waist bell (Manchu), flower pots drum (Han), bronze drum (Zhuang, Gelo, 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), Lee Shi Wen (Uighur), Pacific drums (Manchu), the amount of (Tibetan), rattle (Han), dulcimer (Han), bamboo qin (Yao), dance to (g Muren), Sa Ba Yi (Uighur).
6-cylinder drum
Cylinder drum and drum set sounds cylinders are of percussion instruments. Due to the shape of flower pots, also known as pots drums. This drum playing skills and percussions roughly the same, with a pair of mallet percussion. This drum is widely used in folk instrumental ensemble or opera accompaniment, sometimes used solo. Now absorbed the Western timpani drum cylinder features its restructuring became a pitch tuning cylinder drum. It’s a drum with a metal frame, fitted around eight deputy spiral, used to adjust the drumhead tension, change the pitch, the drum body can rotate on a metal frame, a rotatable drum body to fine-tune the pitch. In addition the following hob fitted pedal, pedal also allows the use of pitch movements. While playing, the music is often necessary, will use several methods to combine.
