What are the tones of gourd silk? What keys do you usually use?

Hulusi is one of the unique musical instruments of Yunnan ethnic minorities. Hulusi is deeply loved by students, music lovers and Chinese and foreign tourists in recent years because of its unique and beautiful timbre, simple and elegant appearance, soft timbre, easy to learn and small and portable features. Hulusi has a beautiful, kind and slightly nasal pronunciation, and is good at expressing tender and delicate feelings, giving people a subtle and hazy aesthetic feeling. The sound made by cucurbit silk is as elegant and soft as trembling silk.

Generally, bamboo and natural cucurbit silk are used to play with cucurbit silk, which have different shapes and the appearance is pyrography. The bamboo material used for making gourd silk will be more beautiful if the thickness and density are chosen in different tones. Fire-roasted bamboo is not easy to be infected with insects, and has good cracking and gloss. The more you use it, the brighter it gets. The main and auxiliary pipes can be tuned and the pitch can be fine-tuned. Hulusi has a large overall volume and good pronunciation sensitivity. The playing atmosphere from the bass to the treble is too stable, and the deep bass is pure and powerful. The appearance of cucurbit silk is elegant and generous, exquisite but not fancy. The gourd silk bamboo tube is beautifully embossed by hand, and the gourd is carved by hand.

Hulusi can be divided into treble, alto and bass according to timbre.

High notes: D minor, E minor, F minor, etc. Tone characteristics: clear, bright and transparent as water. The tracks played include Deep in the Bamboo Forest, Golden Peacock, Mengyang Riverside, Catch the Swing and so on.

Alto: C flat, A flat, B flat, etc. Tone characteristics: soft and sweet, with tracks such as There is a Beautiful Place and Pteris in the Moonlight.

Bass: G, B, E, C, F, D, etc. Tone characteristics: deep and rich, lasting appeal. The tracks played are: bamboo house love songs, pastoral, cottage love songs, ancient songs, Dongxiang night, moonlight birds singing hazy.

The cucurbit silk in each key has its timbre characteristics. As long as it is played well, it is equally pleasant to hear, and it has its own charm. If it is the first time for friends below junior high school to learn cucurbit silk, it is suggested that you can choose the C key of cucurbit silk with moderate hole spacing. Relatively speaking, it is better to press the points, and the finger control is flexible. The tone of cucurbit silk in C key is higher than that in B key, which is more concise and lively. The cucurbit silk in B-flat has a lower voice, a larger and more generous appearance, while the cucurbit silk in C-flat is smaller. The hole spacing of cucurbit silk in B key is more suitable for adults' fingers, and the distance between two or three holes in C key is a little close, which may affect the flexibility of playing at first, but it will be fine if you get used to it. There are also many demonstration songs in c and b. I suggest you change hands from the routine and then learn different tunes from other cucurbits.

There are several points to pay attention to when selecting cucurbit silk: 1. Timbre and alignment, especially bass 3 and bass 5; 2. The high-pitched area is bright, without noise, and there is no sand sound in the midrange area; 3. The main and auxiliary pipelines should be coordinated; 4. No crack or damage in appearance; 5. Hulusi, which has not been played for a few days, should be played harder at the beginning. Under the condition that the quality of the instrument is guaranteed, the timbre will become more rounded and easier to pop out.