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Dulcimer and stringed instruments. Also known as dulcimer, piano player, brass piano, fan piano, bat piano and butterfly piano.

China dulcimer is the only worldwide musical instrument among Chinese musical instruments. The body of the piano is trapezoidal, and the sound is made with bamboo double hammers. The timbre is crisp and pleasant. In China, because it looks like a butterfly, the bamboo in both hands dances like tentacles when playing, and it is known as the butterfly piano.

Dulcimer is an indispensable instrument in Chinese national bands. Whether it is used for solo, accompaniment or ensemble, it can give full play to the timbre characteristics of dulcimer. Dulcimer, also known as "dulcimer", is a stringed instrument commonly used in China. It belongs to the same family as the piano, with distinctive timbre characteristics, loud volume and flexibility. But the personality is not very strong, and it is easy to blend with other musical instruments.

When playing slowly, the timbre is like a tinkling mountain spring, and when playing fast, the timbre is like flowing water. Its timbre is crisp and bright, and its expressive force is extremely rich. It can be solo, ensemble or accompanied by piano books, rap and opera, and plays an important role in national instrumental ensemble and national band.

Sound principle of dulcimer

There is nothing in the dulcimer. What you can see on the outside is its structure. It is not empty. It's a dulcimer box, which is used to make sounds. When you tap the string, it will ring with the panel under the string, and the sound will be emitted from the speaker. You can take a closer look at the bottom of the dulcimer. There are many round holes, where the sound comes from. Therefore, on the stage,

Generally, the microphone is not placed above the piano, but near the edge of the piano and speaker. If you still don't understand, you can look at the piano. The sound principle of dulcimer is similar to that of piano, except that the piano uses the keys to control the hammer in the sound box to hit the strings, while dulcimer omits the keys and directly hits the piano surface with the hammer.

Extended data

According to historical records, before the Middle Ages, Assyria, Persia and other ancient Middle Eastern countries, a dulcimer called Santu Qin was popular. In the Ming Dynasty (1368~ 1644), with the increasingly close friendly exchanges between China and West Asia and East Asia, Sanduqin was introduced to China by sea, first popular in Guangdong, and then gradually spread to all parts of China.

Later, after the transformation of China folk artists, Santu Qin gradually evolved into China dulcimer. Since the late Qing Dynasty, dulcimer has been used in Guangdong music, Jiangnan Sizhu, Yangzhou Qingqu, Guangxi Wenchang, Changde Sixian, Sichuan Qin Shu, Henan Qin Shu, Shandong Qin Shu and Yulin Xiaoqu.

Traditional dulcimer, the frame is colored wood, birch or elm, covered with white pine or paulownia panel, covered with plywood, and the speaker is butterfly or flat trapezoid. 90~97 cm long, 32~4 1 cm wide and 5.7~7 cm high. The left piano head is provided with a string hook nail, and the right piano head is provided with a string shaft. There are two circular sound holes on the panel, which are decorated with bone carving sound windows.

There are two bar piano codes made of bamboo, mahogany or ox horn, with the high-pitched code on the left and the low-pitched code on the right. Peaks are used to support chords, and valleys are filled with chords of another code. There are straight or zigzag long mountain passes of mahogany on both sides of the panel for stringing. A sound beam is stuck in the sound box corresponding to the piano code on the panel, and there are four or five circular wind eyes on the sound beam to make sound waves convection.

Steel wire string, steel string for treble and winding string for bass. Zhu Qin, also known as Qin Bamboo Slips and Shaanxi Opera, are two kinds of elastic bamboo pestles. There are three commonly used dulcimers: eight tones (twenty-four tones), ten tones (thirty tones) and twelve tones (thirty-six tones). Also known as double eight, double ten and double twelve. The range is: octave F 1-C2, tenth degree D 1-D3, and twelve tones C-E3.

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