Hengshan Storytelling Instruments

Three strings: three strings for the main accompaniment of storytelling, it plays a pivotal role in storytelling, is the backbone of the melody, the traditional use of the three strings, smaller than the current three strings, there are also used in place of the lute three strings of the lute.

Ma chirp: it is a kind of accompaniment instrument unique to Shaanbei storytelling, by about 2 centimeters wide, 8 centimeters long, composed of small bamboo pieces, in the middle of the small bamboo piece of a small hole, six small bamboo pieces of rope to take from the small holes in the tie together, between the small bamboo pieces of small iron pieces of folder, the time of the storytelling in the artist's right hand set in the tiger's mouth and the back of the hand. With the rhythm of the right hand plucking strings and the sound is not big but very crisp bamboo and small iron clash. The artist also occasionally wrestles with it when he is speaking.

Juggling board: juggling board by 4 cm wide and 20 cm long four pieces of bamboo board, a single piece of triple piece, a small hole in one end of the bamboo board, the four pieces of bamboo board with a rope through the hole tied together, triple piece of question clip small copper, the artist said the single piece of the book tied to the calf of the right leg, rap and pass the door according to a certain rhythm of the clap joint piece of the road to the white when it stops.

Waking wood: traditional storytellers will put a piece of waking wood on the stool next to the blind man, and clap it when they start the board, interrogate the hall, and point out the generals.