"Mengdi Huange" small muffled flute album came out

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The Yunnan National Culture Audio-Video Publishing House published the first domestic VCD album of small muffled instruments.

Yunnan has a vast land and numerous ethnic groups, making it an artistic treasure house with an extremely rich collection of ethnic musical instruments. The Yi small muffled flute is a treasure in this treasure house. Its shape is only the size of a cigarette. It was originally a double-reed wind instrument popular among the Yi people in Chuxiong and Dali for a long time.

Since 1980, he has begun to excavate and study the small muffler, a unique ethnic musical instrument of the Yi people in Yunnan. In the same year, it was introduced to the whole country. In the continuous artistic practice, I found the strengths of Xiaomendi, but also found some shortcomings. Since 1982, he has been working on the improvement of the muffler, which not only broadened its range, but also enhanced the stability of its pronunciation and integrated the skills of wind music, creating a group of instrumental music played with the muffler. . In addition, a variety of Yunnan minority musical instruments such as slur and reed pipe have been discovered and improved, and they have been introduced to 8 countries and regions including the United States, Germany, France, Japan, and Singapore. The variety and richness of the add a few wonderful flowers.

This instrumental music album, titled "Mengdi Huange", uses the muffled flute as the main musical instrument, and at the same time, it is accompanied by 6 kinds of Yunnan minority musical instruments with various characteristics, such as the ox horn, bure, and bawu. , Dai, Wa, Tibetan, Jingpo and other ethnic minorities in Yunnan splendid customs. The album contains a total of 13 pieces of music, in addition to "Little River Running Water", "Embroidery Pouch", "Following Horses Folk Songs", "Butterfly Spring", "Phoenix Tail Bamboo under the Moonlight" and other classic Yunnan folk songs, as well as "Ah" Newly created instrumental pieces such as "Brother and Sister Jump Up" and "Early Spring in Yi Mountain". The whole album showcases the little-known and precious resources of Yunnan minority instrumental music.

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Small muffled flute (pinyin: xiǎo mèn dí), commonly known as leather whistle, is a double-reed gas-sounding instrument of the Yi nationality. In Yi language, it is called Yahalu or Benmaihei. In Yi language, "Benmaihei" means insect shell, and "Dili" means flute, which means the flute whose shell is used as a reed whistle.

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