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Post by whitehawk on Feb 17, 2015 21:04:29 GMT
I'm familiar and comfortable with bassoon, so it's not a problem of the double reed. I'm just not sure how to attach the reed to the instrument itself. I've seen that there's typically a kind of wrapping around the base of the reed ... the reed I got with my guanzi didn't have that. How should I wrap the reed so I can play it?
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Post by davidmdahl on Feb 17, 2015 21:31:31 GMT
Welcome to the forum, whitehawk. The guanzi is a beautiful but difficult and rarely played instrument. The only musician I know of who plays it is Hong Wang of Datung Music of Las Vegas. Contact information is available on his website at www.melodyofchina.com/ . He also appears to be active on Facebook. Best wishes, David |
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Post by edcat7 on Feb 20, 2015 0:12:08 GMT
I'm familiar and comfortable with bassoon, so it's not a problem of the double reed. I'm just not sure how to attach the reed to the instrument itself. I've seen that there's typically a kind of wrapping around the base of the reed ... the reed I got with my guanzi didn't have that. How should I wrap the reed so I can play it? Hey whitehawk - welcome to the forum. Have you asked Datungarts (Henry Wang) about this? There are many cheap guanzi sold on the market which aren't very good. Given that their scale is not 12 tone chromatic scale, you could potentially have a nightmare to start off with, and a double nightmare with the reed. The reed fitting has to be very close: if your reed is raw and simply cut without metal winding to form an air lock when inserted into the guanzi, then your sound will be sub par. If you have to try and make do with what you have, you can either use gardening wire coil; a very long paper clip, to wind around the inserting end of the reed to form bindings. You might need to stabilise it with metal glue and set it in position unless you have a lightweight tying metal wire. It will need to be wrapped around to form and tight corset to hold the reed in position when the blowing pressure is directed through it, and also tight enough to stop the air leaking through the sides. This is why it's better to get one from the guanzi masters of playing: they know how to play it and are interested in making you start off on the best footing. Trying to set it up with suboptimal parts is a bad way to learn a non-chromatic instrument.... This is what my friend says......In fact he typed this.. |
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