Hulusi C key fingering the first column of the following chart

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Hulusi, also known as "gourd xiao", is a Yunnan minority musical instrument, hulusi originated in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and it is mainly popular in the Dai, Achang, Wa, De'ang and Brown ethnic groups living in the Dehong and Lincang areas of Yunnan, rich in local color. It is mainly popular in Dai, Achang, Wa, De'ang and Brown ethnic groups living in Dehong and Lincang areas of Yunnan, with rich local colors.

Hulusi can be divided into three types: high, medium and low. Its tone is unique and beautiful, the appearance of simple, soft, elegant, simple to learn, small and easy to carry, by the majority of music lovers and Chinese and foreign tourists love.

Hulusi, a reed-coupled vibrating musical instrument, *** high, medium, bass three types, commonly used D/E/F/G/A/B/etc. keys. Between the various nationalities of the terroir, the regional environment of the different makes the hulusi this instrument in the structure is not the same.

Because the traditional gourd silk in the production of seven pronunciation holes (the main pipe), a pronunciation hole a tone (can not be like the bamboo flute as through the breath changes in a tone hole can be blown out of the octave tone to), plus a tube sound a *** can be blown out of the eight tones to. Therefore, the general traditional gourd silk by moving the position of the palace tone, change the original fingering, theoretically should be able to play five to six keys, but due to the limitations of the range and scale arrangement, the traditional gourd silk can only be transferred to four keys, and commonly used only two keys, both the barrel tone for the bass "5" and the barrel tone for the " 1" and this key (the barrel tone for the " 1" and this key (bamboo flute). 1" and this key (5 for the cylinder tone) is the most commonly used. Take C key gourd silk as an example, in addition to blowing out the key (the third hole as 1) can also be blown out of the key of G (tube tone as "1"), it is a national tuning pentatonic scale based on the six-tone tuning in playing music has certain limitations, not all music can be played, according to the music of the range of the appropriate choice, the best key is to the third hole as "1". The best key is to play in the third hole as "1", if the music needs to be transposed can be resolved by replacing the hulusi, generally used hulusi B, C, D, F key, etc..

The hulusi's range is not as wide as that of the familiar bamboo flute, which can reach more than three octaves, but is usually within nine degrees, with a maximum of eleven degrees, and is a national tonal scale. Its tone is light and delicate, mellow and simple, soft and charming, extremely expressive, loved by the people. Whether it is folk music, or professional stage can hear it playing beautiful sound.

Hulusi is often used to play folk tunes such as mountain songs and ditties, and is best suited to playing smooth and lyrical pieces, such as "Fenghuangzhu under the Moonlight" and "Deep Love", which have become representative of its classic repertoire. Hulusi in the Dai, Achang and other ethnic people in the most popular, is a recreational instrument, in the festival, whether it is in the river rowing dragon boat or in the riverside put "Gao Sheng", or in the square, "Catch the pendulum" or in the bamboo building in the wine feast, can be heard in the beautiful sound of young men and women to convey their love and affection. The sound of young men and women to express their love or people walking on the road and labor in the fields, but also often blowing the hulusi, adding a lot of joy to people's lives.