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What music does Baishi suona usually play?

Cry for five watches, cry for heaven, the song of the sky, a flower, cry for a different song, etc. Suona is called advocacy among the people in Taiwan Province Province. In Guangdong, it is one of the eight-tone musical instruments. In Henan and Shandong, it is called trumpet, and there are famous tracks such as "A Hundred Birds at the Phoenix" and "Sedan Chair".

Suona consists of five parts: whistle, gas tag, invasion, pole and bowl. There are eight holes (the first seven and the last one) in the wooden conical tube, and a thin copper tube is installed at the upper end of the tube, which is covered with a reed whistle with double springs, and a copper bowl-shaped speaker is installed at the upper end of the wooden tube. Although the suona has eight holes, the sound of the seventh hole is the same as that of the drum, and the sound of the eighth hole is the same as that of the first hole.

The core is one of the important components of suona, which is equipped with a whistle and connected with the supervisor. The traditional core is a single tube, while the movable core is a movable sleeve, which can change its length telescopically and be reset by the action of a spring.

When playing, you can press the core up with your hand to play a temporarily changing chromatic scale or chromatic scale. If the moving core is pushed forward and locked, it can be used as a high-pitched transposed instrument with the same fingering.

Suona can be divided into treble, alto and bass according to the pitch of drums (with three-hole pitch as the name). According to the length, it can be divided into small suona, sea flute, middle suona and big suona.

The traditional suona tube has eight holes, which are pressed by the index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger of the right hand and the thumb, index finger, middle finger and ring finger of the left hand (left and right can be changed according to different users) to control the pitch.