What are the traditional accompaniment main instruments of Laiwu Opera?

The traditional accompaniment of Laiwu Opera is the big huqin, the eight-pronged moon zither, and the three strings, which are the so-called traditional three pieces of Laiwu Opera.

Dahuqin is commonly known as "cello". It is made of Tsubaki wood, rounded, and covered with a paulownia board at one end, with a short and thick pole, and the sound is high, clear, and pure. The big huqin leather strings for the inner strings, the old strings for the outer strings, wearing iron fingers with a hard bow to play, since Shandong Laiwu City rehearsal of the "three stakes" began, the piano teacher will be leather strings changed to steel wire strings, the iron fingers and hard bow to play, changed to wear a leather finger cover and soft bow to play.

The octagonal face of the eight-angled moon zither is octagonal in shape, covered on both sides with paulownia boards, with a short neck and no fixed taste. It was played with a hard cow horn plectrum.

Later, in order to overcome the shortcomings of the band's music, which was high pitched, noisy and sharp, the three strings were removed and an alto banhu was added. The tuning of the banhu is the same as that of the big huqin, except that its range is an octave lower than that of the big huqin, thus forming the new three major pieces.

In addition, Laiwu bang other accompanying instruments, sometimes also use the flute, sheng, strings, silk bamboo and other instruments.

The percussion instruments of Laiwu Opera are mainly clappers. The clapper is made of solid suzuki wood, the tone is crisp and loud, very distinctive. In addition to the clappers, the rest of the percussion instruments are basically the same as those of Beijing Opera, including drums, gongs, cymbals and cymbals.

The performance characteristics of these instruments, in addition to the percussion with the singing plate style continues to retain the unique artistic style of Laiwu Bang Opera, the rest of the percussion has been absorbed by a large number of other types of excellent equipment, compared with the previous great improvement.

In addition, because the old generation of Laiwu Bang Opera class society also performs Hui opera, therefore, it uses Hui opera accompaniment instruments.

The old generation of artists performed the Pihuang accent than the current Beijing Opera singing straight, the key is quite low, accompanied by the main strings to the Beijing Hu, but the door is very different from the current Beijing Opera. According to the old artists, in the past, there are also purely with suona accompanied by the two yellow plays.

The plectrum cavity sung by the old generation of banshe is different from the high plectrum in Peking Opera nowadays, and it is a relatively old art form, with the main accompanying instrument being the Jinghu, and the string fixing method is the same as that of the high plectrum in Peking Opera.

In the past, the artists sang two kinds of chaotong, one is called "blowing cavity chaotong", the other is called "wind churning thunder chaotong". The singing cavity of the chaotic bomb is characterized by half a line of four flat tunes and half a line of blowing cavity mixed with the two kinds of chaotic bomb accompanied by the instrument, are based on the cross flute.

There are three kinds of Luo Luo sung by old artists: one is the big flute Luo Luo, also called "big flute doll", accompanied by big suona; the second is the small flute Luo Luo, also called "small flute doll", accompanied by small sea flute; and the third is the holding tune of the dolls, accompanied by the transverse flute, huqin and so on. The third one is the "holding tune doll", which is accompanied by a flute and a huqin. Most of these three forms of singing are in a three-sentence panel structure, commonly known as the "three-legged building".

The repertoire of tandan reeds passed down by the old generation of banshees **** there are four of them, and only one has been preserved to the later ones. This play was accompanied by transverse flute, small sea flute and huqin.

In addition, because the old generation of tanzas sang a greater variety of art forms and had more complex musical accompaniments, it took hard work and a lot of effort to become an all-round musical talent who was proficient in various art forms and mastered the musical knowledge of each type of play.

So, there was a phenomenon that was not quite the same as other types of theater in the old generation of banshees, where the drummers were treated the same as first-rate actors, and the main string players were treated the same as second-rate actors. Later, with the gradual abolition of other art forms, this phenomenon has only improved.