The wooden stick piano is composed of a sound body, a wooden frame and a wooden jostle. The pronunciation bodies are mostly made of hard wooden sticks, each with a length of 120 cm to 160 cm, a diameter of 8 cm to 10 cm, and three per qin. The lengths and diameters of the three sticks are different. The two ends of each stick are hung on the wooden frame by ropes, and the three sticks are equidistant and parallel.
Each stick can emit two tones in the relationship of fifths, and two adjacent sticks are in the relationship of minor thirds. When the sound of the stick is not accurate, you can use a knife to trim the stick. When the pitch is low, the ends can be shortened, and when the pitch is low, the stick should be thinned. You can also move the rope hanging the stick to adjust. When the pitch is low, the rope knot Move toward the middle of the stick, and at pitch, the knot moves toward the ends of the stick.
According to the field investigation by Professor Lu Bingchuan of Tunghai University in Taiwan from 1966 to 1977, in the Chimei village of the Ami tribe, there are also bamboo qin, that is, the sound body and the qin frame are made of dry bamboo poles, and there are also qin made of bamboo and wood. , that is, the sound body is made of wooden sticks and bamboo poles, and the piano frame is made of wood or bamboo. The wooden chutes are made of short wooden sticks, with a length of 35 cm to 40 cm and a diameter of 2.5 cm to 3 cm.