What kind of instrument is the sheng in the short song line?

The sheng is an ancient wind instrument of the Han Chinese people, belonging to the reed instrument family of reed instruments, mainly composed of three parts: the sheng spring, the sheng flute (i.e., the sheng body of a number of different lengths of bamboo tubes), and the sheng bucket (i.e., connecting the mouthpiece of the sheng base).

The sheng is the originator of most existing reed instruments in the world. It has a clear, elegant, soft and singable sound with Chinese folk colors. It is the earliest instrument in the world to use free reeds, and has played an active role in promoting the development of Western musical instruments.

The basic structure of the sheng is that the reeds are glued with wax seals to the lower end of the sheng tube on the sheng feet and inserted in the sheng bucket. There is a finger hole at the lower end of each sheng tube near the bucket. When playing, according to the need for sound, press the finger hole at the lower end of the pipe, and blow or inhale through the mouthpiece (also called "beak") to stimulate the reed and the air column inside the pipe to produce coupled vibration and sound.

The traditional sheng usually has thirteen, seventeen, or nineteen reeds, but after improvement, there are twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-six, thirty-six, thirty-seven, forty-two reeds, and so on. The traditional sheng uses a finger to press a hole to control the sound of the pipe. The improved sheng adds keys, and one finger can control more than one key to control more tones.

Sheng finger skills

1, vibrato: the vibrato of the sheng, that is, the fingers on the press hole quickly open and close, forming a vibrato. When used on a sheng, it is the same tone repeated quickly, but also used on two sheng to form three or four degrees of vibrato.

When using the vibrato, the tone should be accurate and the volume should be balanced. Generally speaking, the use of vibrato finger, finger and wrist force is the main, sometimes in order to make the vibrato finger faster, play more rough and use the power of the small arm to drive the finger.

2, leaning tone: leaning tone is a kind of decorative tone, there are single leaning tone and compound leaning tone. Each kind of leaning tone is divided into upper leaning tone and lower leaning tone. Leaning tone is generally in the thick tone before, play leaning tone generally use the sound and spit sound of the playing method, played short and close with the sound.

3, the calendar tone: the calendar tone is a series of sound level by level rapid appearance, divided into top-down and bottom-up calendar tone, often used in the performance of joyful music, slow music in the calendar tone, there is an effect similar to the song.

4, wipe the sound: wipe the sound is obtained in a sound hole, mainly by the finger in the sound hole gradually open and gradually press the closed coherent action, and combined with the strength of the airflow so that the sound hole of the sound from the tone gradually rise, and gradually return to the sound, with a special effect.

5, hit the sound: hit the sound is in the sound at the same time, according to the convenience of fingering, with a few other sounds to set off the sound, set off the sound of the sound of the sound is a sound to stop, the finger a press a release more rapid. Playing the sound of the strong and weak, hard and soft mainly with the gas and tongue to control, according to the content of the music, style requirements and fingering convenience or not to decide to play a few more or less than a few tones.