1, guqin
Guqin is one of the oldest musical instruments in China, and it is a solo musical form of transverse stringed instruments. It can play elegant and beautiful tunes and has a unique notation. It can listen to ancient music through guqin and show the evolution history of China traditional music.
Ancient books recorded Fuxi's piano-making, as well as legends about Shennong's piano-making, Huangdi's piano-making and Tang Yao's piano-making. Shun set the piano as five strings, adding one string and reducing one string to seven strings; It can be seen that Chinese guqin culture has a long history and is profound.
2.pipa
Pipa, also known as "plucked guqin", was the most widely circulated musical instrument in ancient China. Pipa, the earliest plucked instrument, is a plucked instrument. The loudspeaker is made of wood or bamboo, and it is half pear-shaped with four strings on it. Originally made of silk thread, now it is made of steel wire, steel rope and nylon. Provide "phase" and "product" for the neck and panel to determine phonemes.
Guqin playing skills
The pitch of the guqin hollow string is not fixed, depending on the music played. The tuning of guqin is complicated, with as many as 35 modes. According to the pentatonic scale, the range has four octaves and one second degree.
Among stringed instruments, guqin is a unique instrument. Its surface is a fingerboard, without columns or goods. When playing, the piano is placed horizontally on the table, the right hand plays the strings, and the left hand presses the strings to pick up the sound. It depends entirely on the symbols of the Qin emblem (not limited to 13 emblem, many sounds are between emblems), and the intonation is extremely strict.
Guqin's expressive force is particularly rich. By using different playing techniques, many artistic features can be displayed. Its scattered sound (empty string sound) is loud and vigorous, as grand as a bronze bell. The overtones are as transparent and colorful as pearls, and vary with different ranges. The high-pitched area is light and crisp, like a bell in the wind.
The alto is bright and sonorous, just like hitting a jade Qing. Pronunciation by sound is solid, also called "real sound", and the timbre of each sound zone is different. The bass area is rich and powerful, the midrange is macro and solid, and the treble area is crisp and slender. According to the various sliding sounds in the voice, it is as soft as a song and has profound and meticulous expressive force.