Friday, July 17, 2009
Instruments that can be found in china
Gehu
Gehu’s name is made up of two chinese characters. “Ge” means revolutionary and “hu” which is the term for all bowed chinese instruments. The Gehu is made up from the body, bridge, spine and the bow. The instrument is bowed like the cello and the body is covered with animal skin, usually the skin of a horse, lamb or snake. The tone quality depends on the parchment on the body. The gehu can produce a sufficiently full and low pitch sound, the tone is clear and rich. However it has disadvantages too, it has a tendency to go out of tune with too much increased pressure from the bow. The parchment on the body is also easily damaged by humidity, thus affecting the tone quality. The Gehu is softer in volume; some say that the music produced by two Gehus is equivalent to one cello.
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