Erhu vibrato troubles

[yuhongmei123]

Hello!

I've got some questions about erhu vibrato for you guys . . .

My violin teacher has always told me when doing vibrato on the violin to only use one finger (one finger on the board doing vibrato, the others off the fingerboard) otherwise the vibrato will be unclear.

Does the same apply to erhu vibrato?

Also, what are some ways to improve my really fast, tense vibrato into a slow and rolling one? 

Thank you! (and happy late Thanksgiving)

[dawei]

I'm not enough of an expert on either instrument to make definitive comments- but many violin techniques have been applied to erhu - but some things are very traditional and Chinese. I am looking forward to specialists and their comments.

[sanmenxia]

I think I saw an instructional video where they did use vibrato with 2 fingers held down. I can't find it on Youtube, it might have been on Tudou. The erhu player is Chen Chunyuan (陈春园).

[paulv]

Here are some Chen Chunyuan videos on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6gA8HW5RX8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=17qAtvtDk_8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue9uQIhnDgc

Regards,

paul...

[sanmenxia]

I think it might be this one, I can't get the video to play on my computer.

陈春元二胡教学16.揉弦
video.tudou.com/v/XODU5MDIwNzYw.html
or
v.youku.com/v_show/id_XODU5MDIwNzYw.html

There are more clips if you search with 陈春元二胡教学
www.soku.com/nt/search/q_陈春元二胡教学
It's all in Chinese though.

Her name is actually 陈春园

I've found the whole video!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsvicnsqIEk
Vibrato starts at 1hr30min.

[sanmenxia]

This one is little finger vibrato with second and third fingers held down at the same time.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_pDn2-3IO0

Although when he's doing it slowly, it seems a bit jerky.