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Erhu
Erhu - Chinese Traditional Musical Instruments
Erhu - Bowed String Instrument
The
Erhu has a small body and a long neck. There are two strings, with the
bow inserted between them. With a range of about three octaves, it's
sound is rather like a violin, but with a thinner tone due to the
smaller resonating chamber. In the 2nd orchestra they are usually
divided into 1st and 2nd parts. The Erhu first appears about 1104 AD
during the Song Dynasty. We bought ours in Zhengzhou in 1999. It hangs
on the wall in our Great Room. You often see blind men playing this
instrument in some of the big cities. I always enjoyed listening and
gave them money for their efforts. Er is two in Chinese.
The Chinese 2-stringed, vertical fiddle has a history
of more than 500 years. It started to be popular in Southern China
during the Sung Dynasty (960-1279 AD), which gave it another name
"Nan-hu" (the word "south" pronounced in Chinese as "Nan"). Erhu is
still the most popular bowed instrument in today's Chinese music. An
erhu is quite different from a western fiddle. There is a vertical post
with a fingerboard, which goes through the sides of a resonator at its
base. This resonator is covered with a piece of stretched snakeskin
(python), which results in a unique "whining" tone color of the
instrument. The bow for the erhu is placed between its two strings.
Traditionally the two strings are made of silk, although metallic
strings are used as well. The player of an erhu usually sits, and the
erhu is placed on his left upper thigh in front of his left hip. The
instrument is played by moving the bow horizontally through the two
vertical strings. Erhu's range spans about three octaves. It has some of
the qualities of a violin, but having a more nasal tone. Erhu is
capable of producing a gentle but firm tone.
Erhu is a kind of
violin (fiddle) with two strings, which, together with zhonghu, gaohu,
sihu, etc, belongs to the "huqin" family. It is said that its origin
would be dated up to the Tang dynasty (618-907) and related to the
instrument, called xiqin originated from a Mongolian tribe Xi. During
Song dynasty (960-1279), the second generation of the huqin was among
the instruments played at the imperial banquets.
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