Post by calden on Jan 19, 2007 6:05:21 GMT
Hey all:
You folks mostly know me as playing erhu. My initial interest in Chinese music came from when I lived in China 20 years ago, teaching English. Wow - that sounds like a long time ago! And in fact it was, when you compare the tremendous development that has happened since then!
At that time I studied pipa for about four months and brought a couple back with me. This felt like a very natural instrument to pick up because I was playing guitar and banjo already. When I returned to the states I got caught up with professional development and having a family.
Well, for fun I dug out my pipa tonight and tuned it up. My nails are in pretty healthy shape for guitar fingerpicking, and I could not only do some nice runs but also make some clean sounding lunzis. I've got scads of music, mostly hand-written by my teacher from 1986. Time Machine!
I'm going to see if I can brush up some of my pipa skills for our city's Chinese New Year festival!
Carlos
You folks mostly know me as playing erhu. My initial interest in Chinese music came from when I lived in China 20 years ago, teaching English. Wow - that sounds like a long time ago! And in fact it was, when you compare the tremendous development that has happened since then!
At that time I studied pipa for about four months and brought a couple back with me. This felt like a very natural instrument to pick up because I was playing guitar and banjo already. When I returned to the states I got caught up with professional development and having a family.
Well, for fun I dug out my pipa tonight and tuned it up. My nails are in pretty healthy shape for guitar fingerpicking, and I could not only do some nice runs but also make some clean sounding lunzis. I've got scads of music, mostly hand-written by my teacher from 1986. Time Machine!
I'm going to see if I can brush up some of my pipa skills for our city's Chinese New Year festival!
Carlos