Is it better to learn pipa or guzheng?

First of all, the concept is different.

Pipa, the earliest plucked instrument, is a plucked instrument. It is an important national musical instrument for solo, accompaniment, ensemble and ensemble. Pipa is a traditional plucked instrument in East Asia, with a history of more than two thousand years.

The word "Jue" in the word "Pipa" means "two jade collide and make a pleasant knocking sound", which means that it is a musical instrument that makes a sound by plucking the strings. Their names "Pi" and "Pa" are based on the right-handed skills of playing these instruments. In other words, pipa and arpeggio are the names of two playing techniques. The right hand plays the pipa forward and the right hand plays the arpeggio backward.

Guzheng, also known as Han Zheng, Qin Zheng, Yao Zheng and Luan Zheng, is a traditional national musical instrument in China, belonging to plucked instruments. It is one of the important national musical instruments unique to China. Now there are also small guzheng, portable guzheng, mini guzheng, semi-guzheng, new guzheng and twelve-tone guzheng.

Second, the timbre features are different.

The timbre characteristics of pipa: crisp and bright; The voice is higher, and the finger rotation technique is used more in playing skills. Usually, the notes in music feel more dense.

The timbre characteristics of guzheng: elegant and subtle; Relatively more profound and subtle, and the bass is rich, the treble is crisp and pleasant, showing the slow rhythm of music, and the dense notes are as smooth as the flowing water of mountain springs and the ripples of lake water.

Third, fake nails wears different clothes.

Whether the pipa is being worn or tied to the original nail position (the effect is to lengthen the nail).

Guzheng is worn on the fingertips [the function is to pluck the strings conveniently, without scratching the hands or playing (that is, the sound of running water)].

Fourth, the structure is different.

Pipa structure consists of three parts: head, neck and abdomen: head: including piano head, chord groove and chord shaft; Neck: including Yamaguchi, Neck, Qin Pillow and Qin Neck; Abdomen: including frets, boards, hands, piano backs and strings (4 pieces).

Guzheng structure: It consists of panel, wild goose column (also called Qin code in some areas), strings, front Yueshan, string nails, tuning box, piano feet, back Yueshan, side plates, sound holes, bottom plate and string holes.

The appearance of the guzheng is a rectangular wooden sound box, and the string frame "Zheng column" (that is, wild goose column) can move freely, and five sounds are arranged in one string. At first, there were the most 25-string zithers (Zheng was divided into Zheng), and there were 13 strings in Tang and Song Dynasties, and then it increased to 16, 18 and 2 1 string.

At present, the most commonly used specification is 2 1 string; Generally, the models of guzheng are preceded by S 163-2 1, where S stands for the S-shaped Moon Mountain, which is Wang Xunzhi and Miao Jinlin * * *, 163 stands for the length of guzheng, and 2 1 stands for the number of strings of guzheng.

5. Use different materials

Pipa material: the head and neck are mostly made of mahogany or ox horn, ivory, jade and other raw materials; The web is mostly paulownia or cypress, mostly bamboo or ox horn, and the string is steel wire or nylon string.

Guzheng material: paulownia is generally used for the piano body * * * speakers, and wood is used for the bracket. The texture of strings used to be mostly silk, but now they are mostly metal; The front beam, back beam and sound column are mostly made of bamboo.

Sixth, musical instruments have different characteristics.

Characteristics of Pipa Musical Instrument: One of the most important national musical instruments in China, it belongs to the plucked instrument in the stringed instrument family. Pipa has undergone some minor changes since it was basically finalized in the Tang Dynasty, and its timbre, volume and range have also changed. The timbre of pipa is clear and bright. Bai Juyi, a poet in the Tang Dynasty in China, famously said, "Like a plate of jade beads, the size of beads is like rain", which vividly illustrates the sound quality characteristics of pipa.

Its playing skills are quite complicated, and different playing skills can imitate many sound effects (such as gurgling water and even people shouting on the battlefield, etc.). ), very realistic.

Usually a solo instrument. Pipa is also an extremely important melody instrument and accompaniment instrument in Chinese national bands. In addition, in many China local folk arts represented by Suzhou Pingtan, pipa is also the main accompaniment instrument.

Characteristics of Guzheng Musical Instrument: It is one of the traditional national musical instruments in China and widely distributed. It belongs to the plucked instrument family, with a long history and evolution, and its pronunciation is crisp and pleasant, as smooth as a mountain spring. Because it is a pentatonic scale, it has national characteristics in China.

Whether it is used for solo, ensemble, ensemble or accompaniment (accompaniment), it is a very distinctive instrument. It is also often used by Chinese national bands to act as voices. In addition, Zheng is also widely used in many local folk art forms in China, such as Shandong and Chaoshan.