The structure and material of horse bone beard

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The traditional horse bone hu is composed of the qin barrel, the headstock, the qin rod, the peg, the qin, the qin horse, the qin string and the qin bow.

The structure and material of horse bone beard

piano
It is oval-shaped and mostly made of the upper part of the thigh bone of "lima" (pony), the two ends are slightly trimmed, and the large mouth end is ground. It is made of glue, 10-20 cm long, 5 cm in diameter, oval in shape, and there are through holes on the top and bottom of the barrel for loading the piano rod. The barrel is 10 cm-12 cm long and 4 cm-6 cm in diameter. The front mouth is mostly covered with snake skin, and some are covered with fish skin or frog skin, and egg white is used as an adhesive, and the rear end of the cylinder is open or a sound window.

headstock, stem
It is made of a whole hardwood or bamboo pole, mostly made of mahogany, red toon, luohan bamboo or golden bamboo. The top is thick and the bottom is thin, with a total length of 46 cm-60 cm. Rohan Bamboo is the best. The head of the headstock is carved with a horse head on the top of the wooden shaft for decoration, while the bamboo shaft needs to be carved out of a wooden horse head and inlaid on the upper end of the bamboo shaft. The carving of the horse head is exquisite and delicate, exquisite and beautiful.

peg
Two shafts are placed horizontally below the headstock, and the shafts are in the shape of a square column. The pegs were originally made of realgar (that is, yellow deer, also known as barking deer) horns. It is mostly made of boxwood, yellow sandalwood or piano rod wood, in the shape of a cone, with stripes engraved on the shaft handle, and the axis direction is parallel to the piano barrel.

Thousands of pounds
The piano bar is cylindrical, thick at the top and thin at the bottom, and there is a silk string in the middle as a jin.

piano, strings
There is a wooden hollow bridge in the center of the leather surface, Zhang has two strings, tuning d1, a1, range d1-e3, two more octaves. Originally, gut strings or silk strings were often used, but now they are replaced by steel strings.

bow
The thin bamboo is used as the bow rod, and the two ends are tied with a bundle of horsetails as the bow hair, and the bow length is about 60 cm.

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When playing the horse bone hu, sit in a sitting position, place the qin barrel on the left leg or between the two knees, the qin bar is upright, the left hand holds the qin to press the strings, and the right hand holds the bow to play between the two strings.
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