The shape and structure of the bamboo piano

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The shape of the bamboo qin is similar to that of the bamboo tube qin. The body of the piano is made of large dragon bamboo with bamboo knots at both ends. The barrel is 50 cm to 60 cm in length, and the outer diameter is 8 cm to 10 cm. There is a circular sound hole between the two bamboo knots.

The shape and structure of the bamboo piano

On both sides of the sound hole, two bamboo strips are cut out as strings. Each bamboo string is 35 cm long and 0.15 cm wide. There is a bamboo bridge under each end of the string, so that the bamboo string leaves the barrel and has a certain tension. , move the bridge under the strings to adjust the pitch of the bamboo strings. Between the two bamboo strings and the barrel, there is also a prismatic strip for tuning. Each bamboo qin can emit four tones.

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竹琴-百度百科
竹琴-搜狗百科

Involving musical instruments

Bamboo qin (Dao Qin)) (pinyin: zhú qín) has a long history and can be traced back to the "Tao Qing" in the Tang Dynasty, that is, the Taoist affairs and Taoist feelings described by Taoist priests when they preached or recruited.

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Bamboo pianos are mainly distributed in Mianyang, Wuhan, Yichang in Hubei, Qidong in Hunan, Jieshou, Taihe, Yingshang, Linquan, Fuyang, Bozhou, Guoyang, Lixin, Mengcheng and Shenqiu, Henan in Anhui. Xiangcheng, Zhoukou, Taikang, Dancheng and other places are mostly performed in a sitting position.
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