11/1/2022 0 Comments 2 stringed instrument![]() The simplest among all Chinese string instruments, the Erhu has existed for more than a thousand years. From the lowest voice to the highest, there are Ruan variants for contrabass, bass, tenor, alto, and soprano. The Ruan also comes in different sizes depending on the sound desired. The main dissimilarity between the two variants is that the metal makes a distinct, higher-pitched, and louder sound. In the same manner, the original ivory frets were replaced by metal counterparts in the modern versions of the Ruan. It originally had silk strings, but steel strings replaced them in the 20th century. The Ruan is one of the most recognizable Chinese string instruments due to its moon-shaped body. It comprises a neck with 24 frets, a wooden body, four strings, four tuning pegs, and a pick for plucking the strings. Sometimes referred to as the ‘Ruanqin’ particularly in Taiwan, the Ruan is another member of the plucked instrument group and is also part of the lute family. Harry Liu performs “Suite of Ruan” an original suite of music on the ruan, a traditional Chinese musical instrument 1000s of years old. Want to learn more about this Chinese musical instrument? Check out my article on the Guzheng here! 2. Incidentally, eight fingers are needed to play this Chinese string instrument, usually four on one side. Because of that, most, if not all, Zheng players wear the fingerpicks during performances. The Guzheng comes with eight optional fingerpicks that create highly audible sounds. There are 21 bridges and 21 strings across the soundboard. It has a mainly rectangular body 64 inches in length, with a soundboard, a tail, and a head that houses the tuning pegs. The Guzheng produces compelling melodies and is usually tuned to the pentatonic scale or commonly known as the five-note scale. The Guzheng is deemed as the progenitor of several Asian stringed instruments like the Mongolian Yatga, the Korean Gayageum, the Vietnamese dan tranh, and the Japanese Koto. ![]() The best example is the number of the instruments’ strings, which gradually increased from the original five to thirteen up to twenty-one in modern times. The Guzheng has undergone significant revisions throughout those years, and some were due to the cultural interactions among the other Asian nations. A number of the first variants were made of bamboo frames and silk strings. Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 2,000-year-old Guzheng is commonly referred to by the Chinese as a Zheng. Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 422.211.2 Hurdy-gurdy that uses a rosined wheel to create sound. Guitjos are made and repaired by luthiers. The double-necked guitjo was developed in the late-twentieth century. Both necks may be played simultaneously producing a sound that has elements of both guitar and harp. It is strung more like a banjo rather than a traditional guitar. Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 421.222.12Ī double-necked guitjo is a guitar-like, fretted, stringed, musical instrument that has two necks attached to a single body, generally with 14-strings, seven strings on each neck. 2 STRINGED INSTRUMENT SKINSmall stringed instrument, with plucked metal strings, elongated belly as soundboard and narrow neck ending in a pegbox, decorated with carvings of animals and covered with skin Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 211.261.1 Hornbostel-Sachs classification: 423.121.11 ![]() Other nicknames for this instrument include "jitterbug" or "one-string", while an ethnomusicologist would formally call it a "monochord zither". It was traditionally considered a starter or children's instrument in the Deep South, especially in the African American community and is rarely heard outside the rural South, but it may have been influenced to some degree by West African instruments. It consists of a single string of baling wire tensioned between two nails on a board over a glass bottle, which is used both as a bridge and as a means to magnify the instrument's sound. The diddley bow is a single-stringed American instrument which influenced the development of the Blues sound. He was also a pioneer of research into electricity, being most famous for having invented the lightning rod in Europe, contemporaneously with but independently of Benjamin Franklin. It was invented and constructed by the Czech theologian Václav Prokop Diviš (1698 - 1765) - his surname is pronounced "Deevish" and often spelled "Divisch" - at his parish in the Moravian town Přímětice near Znojmo in the south-east of what is now the Czech Republic. The Denis d'or ("golden Dionysus") is, in the broadest sense, the first electric musical instrument in history. ![]()
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