Build your own qin

[zhou]

does anyone have the blueprints availiable for building your own Gu Qin? if so, please reply >^_^<

[Charlie Huang]

Ha! There's Jim Binkley's translation of Yugu Zhai Qinpu which basically tells you how to make a qin from scratch! Of course making a qin is, as the Chinese saying goes, bu yi bu zhi (not so simple and straightforward).

web.cecs.pdx.edu/~jrb/chin/

The qin is probably one of the most difficult and time consuming instruments to make in my books.

[zhou]

thanks, ill look at that later