@Moebym Thanks for replying, I haven't looked (dizi and erhu tuition takes all my spare time) but is the jianpo similar to dizi scores? I tried a friend's guanzi once and didn't find it too hard.
The fingering doesn't look complicated. The only change in technique will be direct lip contact with the double reed (I don't think the Hulusi has direct contact...or am I wrong?). I used to play a lot of renaissance wind instruments (not professionaly though), and they all had similar fingering: recorders, krumhorns, dulcian (curtal), etc. I had a bass dulcian (forerunner of the bassoon), and although I mostly knew recorders and other winds, it didn't take me long to get used to the double-reed, and I was able to play bass on many simpler songs. It was a very cool instrument, but I had to sell it to an early music group in England, when I was in Germany once (needed the money for some medical tests).
Okay, I recently ordered a few of these (F, G, and A keys). They came with synthetic reeds, although you can order cane reeds also. I was surprised how easy they were to play. The synthetic reeds need a bit of squeezing first, to flex them into a curved shape. I suspect, if you have cane reeds, you will need to soak them a bit first.
@@dbadagna You mean the Guanzi? No, they don't overblow for the octave. You have to use fingerings to get the second octave. The first few notes require opening the top hole (left index finger) and then a lot of the others require half-holing that same finger. The upper octave notes do not use the same fingerings as their lower octave counterparts.
If you google Jianpu and the title of the song you'll find quite a bit in Chinese number notation. You can also google how to read Jianpu. It's essentially the same as "Nashville" numbers or moveable do solfege, but it is hard to read when it changes keys in the middle of the piece if you're not already used to reading in both keys as is this is often done without accidentals but instead by changing which note is "1". If you don't read Chinese "I don't", it can be pretty hard to pin down the arrangement you want and also Zhihou is likely adding some embellishments and rubato that's not in the score, but I hope this helps.
What a peacfull music
anybody looked up yungas guan sound and got this?
Thank you for sharing :)
I can play the hulusi well, does that mean I can play the guanzi as well? Are the reeds difficult to buy?
@Moebym Thanks for replying, I haven't looked (dizi and erhu tuition takes all my spare time) but is the jianpo similar to dizi scores? I tried a friend's guanzi once and didn't find it too hard.
The fingering doesn't look complicated. The only change in technique will be direct lip contact with the double reed (I don't think the Hulusi has direct contact...or am I wrong?). I used to play a lot of renaissance wind instruments (not professionaly though), and they all had similar fingering: recorders, krumhorns, dulcian (curtal), etc. I had a bass dulcian (forerunner of the bassoon), and although I mostly knew recorders and other winds, it didn't take me long to get used to the double-reed, and I was able to play bass on many simpler songs. It was a very cool instrument, but I had to sell it to an early music group in England, when I was in Germany once (needed the money for some medical tests).
Okay, I recently ordered a few of these (F, G, and A keys). They came with synthetic reeds, although you can order cane reeds also. I was surprised how easy they were to play. The synthetic reeds need a bit of squeezing first, to flex them into a curved shape. I suspect, if you have cane reeds, you will need to soak them a bit first.
@@PracticaProphetica You were able to figure out how to overblow the octave? I've tried, but wasn't able to do it.
@@dbadagna You mean the Guanzi? No, they don't overblow for the octave. You have to use fingerings to get the second octave. The first few notes require opening the top hole (left index finger) and then a lot of the others require half-holing that same finger. The upper octave notes do not use the same fingerings as their lower octave counterparts.
Key?
F key (all closed C)
Yo where can I get sheet music
If you google Jianpu and the title of the song you'll find quite a bit in Chinese number notation. You can also google how to read Jianpu. It's essentially the same as "Nashville" numbers or moveable do solfege, but it is hard to read when it changes keys in the middle of the piece if you're not already used to reading in both keys as is this is often done without accidentals but instead by changing which note is "1". If you don't read Chinese "I don't", it can be pretty hard to pin down the arrangement you want and also Zhihou is likely adding some embellishments and rubato that's not in the score, but I hope this helps.
www.jianpuw.com/htm/v9/385989.htm