Hulusi tuning & sellers quality

[deedeecake]

Hi, nice to meet you !


I'm a beginner and planning to buy my first hulusi.
I would just get some advises and some help on few points before to get mine :

Below are two videos i found, and i'm not sure what are the keys used in each one.
I think it could be a G for the first one, and a F for the second video, could you confirm that please ?

Video 1

Video 2

I've been looking online to have an idea of prices for hulusi, but there are so much disparities.
I don't even know which sellers actually delivers good quality products..

I'm figuring that the cheapests one (15-30$) have to be avoided, but what about sellers ?
I found some hulusis from Eason, Senque, and several others on E-bay & Amazon, but may be you have some advise on trusted sellers or specific website where to buy mine ?


Any help is welcome ! And if you've got some tips for a beginner like me, i will be glad to read you too !

Thanks by advance.

[edcat7]

Hi deeseecake and welcome.

I haven't had time to look at the videos but I'd recommend a C key hulusi. Do you play any other woodwind? If not I wouldn't buy an expensive one. I must at one point had over fifteen hulusis at varying price points and I've found price make little difference to sound quality. My £6 GBP is so good my teacher uses it for performances.

One thing which is a must though is removable pipes.

Ed

edit. I think the hulusis in both videos are F

[deedeecake]

Hi edcat7,

Thanks a lot for your answer.
I will follow your advise and not to buy a too expansive one. No i'm not playing another woodwind, just started with duduk few weeks ago.

deedeecake.

[meoweth]

Try a Bawu instead of hulusi:
www.aliexpress.com/w/wholesale-bawu.html?initiative_id=SB_20171014090447&site=glo&groupsort=1&SortType=total_tranpro_desc&g=y&SearchText=bawu