How to hand DIY homemade bamboo musical instruments

Summary: Bamboo grows commonly, in the ancient times when the material is not so abundant, many musical instruments are made of bamboo, and it can be said that bamboo musical instruments have been used throughout the history of our country for thousands of years. The xiao, guzheng, zhu, yu, sheng, konghou, wicker, flute and so on, these or common or has been lost bamboo musical instruments in the history of China's music has left a colorful stroke. Today, we can also handmake a bamboo musical instrument to feel the beauty of ancient music and art. The following gives you an easy way to make a bamboo flute, take a look! What are the bamboo musical instruments

1, xiao

Xiao is the most familiar bamboo musical instruments, flute is blowing horizontally, and it is similar to the straight blowing is "xiao". According to legend, the xiao was made by Shun. At that time, the name of the xiao was called "Jiaozai", which means "uneven". This is because the ancient xiao is a multi-tube arrangement (i.e., "row xiao"), in order to make the sound of different heights, the length of the tube is not the same, so the name is "jagged", the ancient xiao has a sealed bottom and no bottom of the two kinds of the former is called "bottom xiao "and the latter for" hole xiao ".

2, zheng

Zheng, also known as guzheng, qinzheng, is still often used to play the ancient Chinese silk string instrument. The zheng has a wide range of sound, clear tone and rich expressive power, and has always been popular among the public. Before the Han and Jin dynasties, the guzheng had twelve strings, and the number of strings increased to thirteen, fifteen, sixteen and twenty-one. Famous guzheng songs include: "The Fishing Boat Sings the Evening Song", "High Mountains and Flowing Water", "Crows Playing in the Water", "Autumn Moon in the Han Palace", "Night Rain in the Banana Window" and so on.

3, flute

The flute is an ancient Han Chinese musical instrument, but also the most representative of the Han Chinese musical instruments with the most national characteristics of the wind instrument. One of the commonly used horizontal blowing woodwind instruments in traditional Chinese music, Chinese bamboo flute, generally divided into the southern flute, the northern bang flute and in between the two alto flute. The range can generally reach two octaves more two. Most flutes are made of bamboo, but there are also stone flutes, jade flutes and flutes made of mahogany, and bone flutes in ancient times. However, the best raw material for making flute is still bamboo, because bamboo flute sound effect is better, the production cost is lower.

4, sheng

Sheng, is China's ancient reed instrument, generally made of thirty-six bamboo tubes of different lengths, used for playing. It consists of three parts: sheng reed, sheng flute and sheng bucket, and the vibration of the sheng reed causes the air inside the sheng flute to vibrate and pronounce the sound. The thirty-seven reed soprano sheng is often used in orchestras. In traditional instrumental music and kunqu, the sheng is often used as an accompaniment to other wind instruments such as the flute and suona, adding pure fourths or fifths to the melody. In modern Chinese orchestras, the sheng can play the role of melody or accompaniment.

5, yu

Yu, the ancient reed instrument, similar to the shape of the sheng but larger, the number of tubes is also more. It was widely played from the Warring States period to the Han Dynasty. The instrument played by Mr. Nanguo in the idiom of "indiscriminately" is yu. The yu is similar to the sheng but larger, and was popular before the Warring States period. Changsha Mawangdui one of the Han tombs unearthed in the yu have twenty-two tubes, divided into two rows before and after, which shows that it is in ancient times is the development of a more perfect musical instrument.

6, Chiku

Chiku is an ancient Chinese stringed instrument, shaped like a zither, with thirteen strings and a column under the strings. When playing, the left hand presses the end of the strings, and the right hand holds a bamboo ruler and strikes the strings to pronounce the sound. It originated in Chu, and its sound is so sad and exciting that it was widely spread in the pre-Qin period. The song "Gao Jianli struck the building and Jing Ke sang with it" refers to it. The zheng and the zhu are ancient bamboo musical instruments that appeared at about the same time.

7, Konghou

Konghou is an ancient Chinese traditional stringed instrument, also known as plucked string instrument. Initially known as "Can Hou" or "empty Hou", in addition to the use of the ancient court music, in the folk are also widely circulated, in ancient times there are lying Konghou, vertical Konghou, phoenix head Konghou three kinds of form. From the late fourteenth century is no longer popular, so slowly disappeared, can only be seen in the former murals and reliefs on some of the patterns of Konghou.

8, wicker bamboos (bìlì)

Also known as the "eggplant pipe", or "pipe", reed instrument, bamboo for the pipe, on the open eight empty (seven before and one after). The mouth of the pipe is inserted with a reed whistle. According to research, Wicker bamboos originated in the Han Dynasty in the western region of Guzi City State (now Xinjiang Kuqa area), and later became an important musical instrument in the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Tang and Song dynasties workshop music, which has been handed down to the present day.

How to make your own bamboo musical instruments

There are many bamboo musical instruments, the following is the most common bamboo flute as an example, for you to introduce the production method:

1, choose a section of bamboo with fewer scars segment, roughly 45 to 70 centimeters, with a saw to choose this section sawing, sawing must be careful when sawing, slowly sawing, to avoid unnecessary damage, affecting the quality of bamboo flute.

2, in the sawed bamboo section of the two ends of the randomly selected end, marked as A, in the bamboo section from the A point 10 centimeters, with a marker pen to mark a point, marked as "1 point"; from the "1 point" 2 centimeters to mark a point, marked as Mark a point 2 centimeters from the "1 point" as "2 points"; mark three more points in this order. The last point is labeled "5". Then mark a point 3 centimeters away from the "5 point".

3. Find a straight iron bar with a radius of one-fourth that of the bamboo, and sharpen one end. Heat the sharpened end with fire.

4. Use the tip of the heated iron rod to punch through the bamboo first, and then punch holes for the points drawn on the bamboo, and repeat the punching until you get a satisfactory one.

5, so made a simple bamboo flute, although the production is relatively simple, but also can play a lot of sound it!

6, when heating with fire, pay attention to avoid burns, when punching holes, be sure to pay attention to the size of the hole, the size can not be too large.