The differences between the Banhu and the Erhu are as follows:
1. Appearance: the body of the Erhu is long and usually covered by beeswax-treated toadstool skin. The neck is longer and the strings are made of horsetail. The body of the Banhu, on the other hand, is a flat wooden board with a shorter neck, and the strings are fixed to a disk.
2. Structure: The erhu has two strings and is played with a bow. The bow is coated with a horsetail waist, and the strings are sounded by pulling the bow. The Banhu usually has four strings, which are fixed to a plate above the body of the instrument, and are played by plucking the strings or playing with the fingers.
3. Technique and range: The erhu is played with the left hand on the neck of the instrument, changing the length of the bow strings to produce different pitches, so it has a large range of tones. The Banhu is played by plucking or finger-picking the strings, and has a relatively small range.
4. Tone characteristics: The erhu's tone is soft and melodious, capable of expressing a wealth of emotions. The sound of the Banhu is bright and clear, and the sound is more direct.
Chinese stringed instruments include Erhu, Ma Touqin, Banhu and Gehu.
1, Erhu. Erhu began in the Tang Dynasty, has a history of more than a thousand years. It first originated in China's ancient northern region of an ethnic minority, originally called "jiqin" and "xiqin", is one of the main bowed stringed instruments in the Chinese family of musical instruments. The poem "Huqin, Pipa and Qiang flute" shows that the huqin has started to circulate in the Tang Dynasty, and the huqin is a general term for Western and Chinese stringed instruments and plucked instruments.
2, the horse-head qin, the horse-head qin is a two-stringed stringed instruments, trapezoidal body and carved into the shape of a horse's head handle, for the Mongolian people's favorite musical instruments. Horse-head fiddle is a Mongolian folk stringed instrument. In Mongolian, it is called "Chaoer". The body is made of wood, about one meter long, there are two strings, *** sound box is trapezoidal, the sound is mellow, low back and forth, the volume is weak.
3, Banhu, Banhu is a stringed instrument, about 300 years of history in China. Tone high, solid, with a strong penetrating power, is the main accompaniment of the northern opera, rap, can also be used for ensemble and solo. There are more varieties of Banhu, in addition to those used for solo and orchestra ensemble, there are also Banhu for each local opera. The banhu is used for music in Hebei and Northeast China, and the barrels of the instruments are smaller.
4, Gehu, a new stringed instrument. In the erhu based on the absorption of other stringed instruments created by the characteristics. Mahogany, rosewood, 170 centimeters long. The headstock is carved with a dragon's head and the rods are inserted into one side of the barrel, and the surface of the rods is equipped with curved fingerboards. The drum is round, with a length of 37 and an outer diameter of 38 centimeters in front of the mouth. Covered with python, horse or sheep skin. Sound window at the back. Adjustable leather tension. Four axes and four strings. Played with a cello bow.
Categorization of folk music
Folk musical instruments are divided into four categories: body-voiced instruments, membrane-voiced instruments, air-voiced instruments, and string-voiced instruments. Chinese folk musical instruments have a long history. Only from the unearthed artifacts can be confirmed: as far as the pre-Qin period, there are a variety of musical instruments. Such as the Neolithic cultural sites in Zhejiang Hemudu unearthed bone whistle.
Jiahu bone flute in Maoyang County, Henan Province (the earliest flute is about 8,000 years old), Yangshao culture site of Xi'an half slope village excavated ocarina, Henan Anyang Yin ruins unearthed stone chime, wooden cavity python drum; Hubei Suixian Zenghouyi Tomb (433 BC buried) unearthed the chime bells, chime, hanging drums, drums, Quercus drums, xiaojiao, pianos, qing, serpents, and so on.