Tuesday, January 13, 2009

I will have to buy one soon

So recently at Uncle Andrew's house, I finally got a chance to touch the Erhu, unlike my Gaohu, the sound is great. Well... Gaohu is the soprano of the "hu" instruments but I personally really like instruments with lower tones. Especially with the Erhu, as soon as I played it, the mood and tone it creates is so different than the Gaohu. It's definately softer, sexier, and romantic. But the problem is, I know that as soon as I get a Erhu, I will probably never touch my Gaohu again. And playing the Gaohu is more difficult (as I already experienced it, the Erhu is much easier to play), I should play some more of it first, and then when I finally buy myself an Erhu, it'd be easier to play. Come to think about it, I think in most instruments, the soprano instrument is always harder to play. Like in the flute section for example, the most skillful player usually gets upgraded to the Piccolo, and it's the same with Erhu. But I kind of did it the other way around, I started with the Gaohu first before the Erhu. But anyway, LOL, I think sometime I'd like to play sifu's instrument with the coconut one, cos it looks funny.

Right now I'm also trying to learn to read Chinese music, which is very different and gayer than normal music with the 5 lines. But anyways, I also pick up my Gaohu and start playing "gwailo" music anyways, which is mostly violin stuff, so it don't matter. But once I get a hang of reading Chinese gay sheet music, I'll play the opera stuff so people can eventually use me.

Also, the C-Dizi, which is a Chinese flute, that I purchased from Singapore should arrive in the next 6 to 8 days. Hopefully it isn't as high pitched as the one I played this weekend b/c I wasn't sure if it was a C instrument as well... lets hope not; I really don't like high pitched stuff. It hurts my ears and it's not sexy.... (-_-;)

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