How Kashgar Rewapu Plays

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Kashi Rewapu's performance skills include single play, double play, strumming, rolling, strumming, sweeping small rolls and sweeping continuous strumming, etc. The outer strings play the main melody, and the resonance strings are used to play bass or harmony. Can be used for solo, instrumental ensemble or to accompany folk song and dance.


To play Kashgar Rewapu, you can sit or stand, but keep your body straight and your shoulders straight. Place the piano body across the chest, the resonance box is placed on the right chest, the leather side is facing up, and the left corner is close to the right chest muscle.

Hold the piano rod with the tiger's mouth in the left hand, raise it slightly, and tilt the piano surface slightly outwards. The index finger, middle finger, ring finger and little finger of the left hand can press the strings to take the sound. Hold the pick with your thumb and forefinger, and pluck the strings above the bridge to make a sound.

Picks are usually made of 0.3 cm to 0.5 cm thick celluloid plates made of triangles, and can also be made of bone chips, horn chips or wood chips. The tuning of Kashi Rewapu, regardless of whether it is a five-string or a seventh-string, the high-pitched main string (outer string) is all tuned as c1, and the four resonance strings are tuned as: e, A, d, and g. The six resonance strings are tuned as: #f, B, e, A, d, g or B, e, E, A, d, g.

Three octaves of sound. The pronunciation is bright and soft, the volume is small, the timbre is euphemistic and delicate, and it is beautiful and lyrical.
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Kashi Rewapu (pinyin: kā shí rè wǎ pǔ) is a plucked stringed musical instrument of the Uzbeks and Uyghurs. This kind of hot wap has a wide range, crisp and bright tone, and is best suited for solo, but also for instrumental ensemble or singing and dancing accompaniment in a band.

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Organized by Susan on 2022-02-09
Kashgar Rewapu is a plucked stringed musical instrument of the Uyghur and Uzbeks. Popular in all parts of southern Xinjiang, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, especially in Kashgar.
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