The red sandalwood erhu is an erhu made of red sandalwood, which has a natural black color without painting. So very slippery and easy to change handlebars. Although expensive, it is loved by professionals. Its timbre is more elegant and pleasant than erhu made of other materials.
Red sandalwood erhu. The appearance is purple, full of grace and luxury. Wood is precious and scarce, and has great potential for appreciation. It is a diamond treasure in Erhu. Matched with selected wild boa constrictor skin covering, the sound quality is pure, firm, steady and thorough, and the tone is round, gorgeous, bright and atmospheric.
In the traditional manual production method, the selection of wood materials is very regular, and the color, texture and texture must be consistent. On the one hand, it is for the appearance quality, and more importantly, it lays a good foundation for the adjustment of the tone of the erhu in the later production.
Red sandalwood erhu is not painted. It adopts a closed-cell coating manual process called light polishing. Every part of the erhu has to be filled with brown eyes and polished for countless times until the surface is fine, smooth and bright, and no brown eyes are visible. In particular, the corners and corners must be smooth, clean, and free of sand marks to be considered qualified.
The overall assembly of the red sandalwood erhu must be tightly stitched and symmetrical.
A good red sandalwood erhu cost the craftsmen a lot of effort. Careful tasting, you can see the craftsmanship and patience of the maker.
A good red sandalwood erhu should not only have good craft value, but also have strong practical value. The luthier has to rely on his own experience and choose the skin according to the texture of the wood. The thickness, strength and tension of the leather should be fully considered, and each erhu should be individually designed. Leather-making, leather-covering, leather-leathering, and shaping must follow the design blueprint in mind, and until the final tuning of the sound, it must be repeated many times, until a red sandalwood erhu with both sound and color is produced!