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Post by davidmdahl on Apr 18, 2006 8:44:09 GMT
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Apr 18, 2006 9:23:22 GMT
Thats a Di Hu, and its one of the most useless, screwed up instruments ever. Hahaha, the tea-chest bass made by early sould jazz artists were better than this....
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Post by paulv on Apr 18, 2006 12:51:29 GMT
I saw one of these in a folk music store the last time I was in China. I thought it was a "bass fiddle" equivalent in the huqin family. By the way, the 50/50 estimate of alligator/pythons battles in the Everglades would change if there were pythons large enough to make this instrument -- something like 20/80, in favor of the pythons!! Regards, Paul... |
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Post by calden on Apr 18, 2006 13:37:52 GMT
Okay, I'll order one. I love it! How much?
Carlos
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Post by maaltan on Apr 18, 2006 14:15:46 GMT
... or really small man  j/k i had an assumption the erhu was much bigger than it was when i was researching it. i forgot that the average asian height is much less than the average american (in this area) height. I am also very tall (6'5'') for this area. When i first pulled my erhu out i thought i got cheated with a toy sized one. don't get me wrong. I would do alot to be a bit shorter.. it would save on the number of mild concussions i get... not to mention making insurance alot cheaper. |
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Apr 18, 2006 15:05:53 GMT
erm, not true guys.
The best snake skin for erhus are the last 4 pieces above the genitals of the snake. The width of the area is usually 20cm. The diameter of the erhu is 9.1cm. We need 16 cm wide skins to make an erhu.
Now, the midle of the snake is wide. Wide enough to cover 35 inches. Now, thats huge. Thats just a 4 metre lil bro. How about the 7.9 metre thing i just acquired. The width is 75 cm from tail to head. Frightening eh....
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Post by calden on Apr 18, 2006 15:06:21 GMT
Okay, CCC:
I'm getting pop-up ads and ad notices for hair growth and wigs at the top of this page. What on earth is triggering these? I''ve observed before that some search engine gets triggered by key words then generates content-specific advertisements, but this is weird...
Erhus? Pythons? Everglades? ....leading to....... wigs?
Carlos
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Post by paulv on Apr 18, 2006 15:44:30 GMT
Carlos,
I think those hair ads are being directed towards me. Although you have a "snow top", you have most of it still. For me, I'm still holding onto my color, but the hairline is fading fast!!
Hate getting old.......
Regards,
paul....
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Post by calden on Apr 18, 2006 15:47:52 GMT
Ha! "Snow top." In Chinese they call me "Xue Bai" which means, of course, "Snow White." Either that or "Da Bizi" or the good ol' "Lao Wai." I'll probably be like my grandfather and have a full, thick head of hair forever.
Carlos
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Post by Charlie Huang on Apr 18, 2006 16:14:46 GMT
Okay, CCC: I'm getting pop-up ads and ad notices for hair growth and wigs at the top of this page. What on earth is triggering these? I''ve observed before that some search engine gets triggered by key words then generates content-specific advertisements, but this is weird... Erhus? Pythons? Everglades? ....leading to....... wigs? Carlos Don't look at me! This crappy forum does things like that sometime. But this forum is for free, so can't blame the, for advertising stuff that has no link to what we're talking about... |
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Post by calden on Apr 18, 2006 16:51:02 GMT
CCC:
You say "Don't look at me!" with your picture right there. How can we NOT look at you? Say, that's not a wig you're wearing, is it?
Carlos
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Post by davidmdahl on Apr 18, 2006 17:26:35 GMT
I hate to change the subject from hair pieces and hair that NEEDS BRUSHING, but I found some more photos. Check out the Wikipedia listing for dihu: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DihuThe last three "External links" compare the sizes of various large huqins with an erhu. The smallest dihu (xiaodihu) is tuned to an octave below the erhu. I can understand if the larger dihu's do not work well, but maybe the xiaodihu could be fun and effective in a small ensemble. Best wishes, David |
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Post by calden on Apr 18, 2006 19:17:16 GMT
Now THAT'S the one I want. One could truly rock and roll with a di hu that size.
Carlos
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Post by paulv on Apr 18, 2006 20:18:13 GMT
Now THAT'S the one I want. One could truly rock and roll with a di hu that size. Carlos I wonder what kind of playing technique is required -- it looks too big to rest on a person's leg and played comfortably. Regards, Paul.... |
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Post by maaltan on Apr 19, 2006 12:51:48 GMT
Okay, CCC: I'm getting pop-up ads and ad notices for hair growth and wigs at the top of this page. What on earth is triggering these? I''ve observed before that some search engine gets triggered by key words then generates content-specific advertisements, but this is weird... Erhus? Pythons? Everglades? ....leading to....... wigs? Carlos who else would need a wig. an old retired python living in florida but seriously i find it amazing how often 2 completely different languages overlap. dadihu paints the same picture in my head as daddy-hu. i know there is no real overlap but its amazing how the imagry overlaps. For the non-native english speakers who may not know what im talking about, "daddy" is of course a multi-derived form of "father". It is also used as a prefix to an inanimate object to classify it as the largest or next to largest form of that object (which in case grand daddy is used). I still think its amazing that "ma" with the smallest phonetic changes means mother in most languages. |
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Post by calden on Apr 19, 2006 15:07:24 GMT
My favorite Chinese-English linguistic oddity:
The word "to swallow" is the same as the word for "swallow" (the bird): yan (4th tone)
Carlos
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Post by maaltan on Apr 19, 2006 20:26:06 GMT
My favorite Chinese-English linguistic oddity: The word "to swallow" is the same as the word for "swallow" (the bird): yan (4th tone) Carlos oook.. the big question is ... why? Since the word is completely different, It cant possibly be from "instinctual" language stock. Do swallows... swallow in an obvious manner? I dont watch birds much so i would be hard pressed to identify a swallow. I feel there is a small bank of words that are instinctual in nature. these seem to be almost universial between human languages(and some primates). the "ma" sound being the most obvious. Of course, a more mainstream explaination would be that babies tend to say "ma" first and they are around their mother the most (traditionally) therefore the adult mind construes it as a word with a meaning (typically with great elation). but sorry, getting off the subject. |
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Post by calden on Apr 19, 2006 21:31:02 GMT
To stay off the subject... for just another minute...
The psychological theory behind "ma" and "pa, ba, da" etc. is that the "ma" sound comes from the sounds of nursing, so that sound is associated with the Mother, or a taking in of nurturance. The "ba" sound is made by asserting one's self psychologically, via the breath, and comes up when the baby "discovers" the "other-than-mother" parent. I have loved studying language and learning Chinese and having these stray thoughts of mine come into play. Did you know that third tone words constitute a higher percentage of action verbs in Chinese over first, second, and fourth tone words? This seemed to be so when I studied first year Chinese and asked a Chinese linguist about tone-meaning corellations, and he confirmed it for me.
Amazing where a degree in psychology gets you. It's true that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but if it IS true, then sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar. Back to erhus.
Carlos
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j/k