Why do you play suona at the funeral?

Because it is a custom to play suona at a funeral to express the memory of the dead. Of course, we should respect the custom! When it comes to folk suona, artists of the older generation often say that "the violin is three loads of rice, and suona lasts all morning". In fact, folk suona, like other national musical instruments, can't be learned overnight.

The expanded data suona is a national wind instrument and a folk instrument widely circulated in China.

Suona is bright in tone and loud in volume. The pipe is made of wood and has a conical shape. The upper end is equipped with a copper tube with a whistle, and the lower end is covered with a copper bell mouth (called a bowl), so it is commonly known as a horn. In Taiwan Province Province, it is called advocacy; Also called Didi in Guangdong, it is one of the eight-tone musical instruments in Guangdong.

Suona, with its loud pronunciation, has been used as accompaniment for folk song blowing parties, yangko parties, drum music classes and local folk art and opera. Through continuous development, it has enriched the playing skills and improved the expressive force, and has become a unique solo instrument, which is used for national band ensemble or opera, song and dance accompaniment.

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.

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Baidu encyclopedia-suona