In the long river of history, China has a history of 5,000 years, and a variety of national cultures have been nurtured in it. But no matter what kind of culture contains art, and music as a symbol of art has played an irreplaceable role since ancient times, so in order to create more beautiful music, musical instruments were born. So today,  will take you to briefly understand one of the national musical instruments - cucurbit flute.

Minority people play cucurbit flute in festivals

When it comes to cucurbit, I believe many people are familiar with it, and have seen it on TV and the Internet more or less. In fact, it belongs to a minority wind instrument, which consists of reeds, gourds, and bamboo pipes, so there is no doubt that the sound principle is generated by the vibration of the reeds. A good gourd silk is extremely demanding in the selection of materials. Only in this way can the most accurate timbre be tuned. Moreover, after the production of each gourd silk by the master, it seems to be a living individual, and the sound it emits is just the same. Like people's timbres and personalities, they are all different, but there are subtle changes to be discerned carefully.

Minority children are blowing cucurbit

The common cucurbit flute has 7 holes, 8 holes, 9 holes, etc. The difference is that the cucurbit flute with different numbers of holes has different ranges, that is, the span from the lowest to the highest. Although the porous cucurbit flute broadens the range of sound, it also sacrifices a lot of natural, authentic and simple timbre. Hulusi has many fingerings. Beginners are suitable for learning the drum tone to make the bass 5, that is, the sound produced by pressing all the holes. Of course, there are other drum sounds, and the Hulusi is due to the size of the reeds and bamboo pipes and the hole spacing. Different cucurbit silk has many kinds of tones, such as B-drop, small C, big D, E, small F, etc. Similarly, beginners should start learning from B-drop, because the hole spacing is just right and it is convenient to press holes. But if you are tired of the harsh high-pitched tone of the B-flat, you should try to buy a small F key. Personally, I like this one because its tone is very attractive. Lack of emotion, the only disadvantage is that this bass cucurbit flute is relatively large, the hole spacing is relatively large, it is not convenient for fingers to press the hole and there are certain requirements for lung capacity, but if you strengthen the practice, it will not be a problem.

Minority schools also launched cucurbit flute hobby classes

Speaking of which, is there an urge to buy a cucurbit silk? Haha, in fact, it's completely possible. Hulusi is a relatively simple type of musical instruments. It only requires you to master the basic knowledge of music theory, understand the music score, and then master the fingering and skills. Disaster. You can choose to learn notation or notation according to your personal hobbies. Personally recommend notation. Because the numbered notation is easier to learn, and the content of its expression is more direct. When you have learned the basic knowledge of music theory and can understand the numbered notation, you will find that you can really create with your hands. Make a wonderful tune! But in order to play smoothly and beautifully, it still requires everyone's unremitting efforts, determination and patience.