The structure of musical instruments

Pipa is composed of a "head" and a "body". Body includes phase, taste, speaker, hand cover and other parts.

section. The head of the pipa is composed of "string groove", four "rollers" and "mountain pass". The upper end of the body of the pipa is also called the "neck", that is, the "phase". The upper end of the neck is called the "pillow", and the middle and lower parts are called "taste". Both the phase and the product are called "columns" in ancient times, which is a phoneme device.

the middle and lower part of the body is narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the bottom is semi-circular and hollow, that is, the sound box; The grade is glued to the panel made of sycamore, and the four strings are tied in the four small holes of the lower hand cover. A small hole called "sound receiving hole" or "sound outlet hole" is opened on the panel at the center of the hand cover.

Origin of Pipa:

Pipa, also known as "Pi Ba", was first recorded in Liu Xi's "Interpreting the Name and Interpreting the Musical Instrument" in Han Dynasty: "Pi Ba originated from Hu Zhong and was immediately drummed. Pushing hands the day before yesterday, but pulling hands the day before, when they drum, they think they are famous. " That is to say, the batch handle is an instrument that is played on a horse. It is called the batch when it pops forward, and it is called the handle when it is picked up later. According to the characteristics of its performance, it was named "batch handle".

in ancient times, knocking, beating, playing and playing were all called drums. At that time, nomads were good at playing pipa on horseback, so they were "immediately drummed". "Dian lue" records that Wei Wendi "tried to make Guo play the pipa, so that the nobles could listen to it. "About the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the style was called" Pipa ".