How to play soprano 1 on hulusi in B-flat key

How to play soprano 1 on a B-flat hulusi with the fingering of the barrel note as bass 5 will not work.

You can use the barrel tone as 1 or barrel tone as 2 fingering, as shown in the following figure:

Hulusi, belonging to the reed-coupled vibrating instrument, **** there are 3 types of high, medium and bass, commonly used D/E/F/G/A/B/etc. keys. Between the various nationalities of the terroir, the regional environment of the different makes the hulusi this instrument in the structure is not the same.

Because the traditional gourd silk in the production of seven pronunciation holes (main tube), a pronunciation hole a sound (not like the bamboo flute as through the breath changes in a sound hole can be blown out of the octave tone to), plus a tube sound a **** can be blown out of the eight tone to.

So the traditional hulusi can theoretically play five to six keys by moving the gong tone position and changing the original fingering, but due to the limitations of the range and scale arrangement;

The traditional hulusi can only be transferred to four keys, and there are only two commonly used keys, namely, the cylinder tone as a bass "5" and the cylinder tone as a "1" and the cylinder tone as a "1". The most commonly used keys are "5" and "1" and the home key (5 for the cylinder).

Hulusi, also known as "hulusi xiao", is a musical instrument of the Yunnan minority, hulusi originated in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and is mainly popular in the Dai, Achang, Wa, De'ang, and Brown and other ethnic groups living in Dehong, Lincang area of Yunnan, rich in rich local colors.

Hulusi can be divided into three types: high, medium and low. Its tone is unique and beautiful, the appearance of simple, soft, elegant, easy to learn, small and easy to carry, by the majority of music lovers and Chinese and foreign tourists love.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Hulusi