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Post by dsouthwood on Dec 3, 2006 19:42:43 GMT
It is difficult for me to slide my hand smoothly up and down the neck because when it gets sweaty it gets sticky. I have been using talcum powder, but that doesn't last very long. I have seen things that look like a small leather pad that hooks to your thumb and fingers to make sliding easier. Does anyone know what they are called and where I could buy one? Thanks.
Dennis
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Post by jetz320 on Dec 3, 2006 22:48:32 GMT
This happens to me sometimes because of the rosin. I don't have a solution but you can try to attach a peice of cloth on your hands where you hold it. That might help out. Use tape or something.
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Post by davidmdahl on Dec 4, 2006 0:54:48 GMT
Hello Dennis,
So far the powder works well enough for me. You could try some thin (silk?) gloves with the fingers cut out.
Best wishes,
David
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Post by calden on Dec 4, 2006 1:04:53 GMT
I feel for you.
In my 30+ years of playing music I have fortunately never had the sweaty-hand sticky-neck problem. I've known lots of guitar players that have this issue and it's a constant problem that gets much worse when they're nervous in the least. My physiology just doesn't work that way. In fact, I tend to dry up when I get nervous!
In recent years it's become popular to have guitar finishes be "satin", which means non-glossy lacquer finishes. It saves some money in that it removes the sanding and buffing step in the finishing process, but it also looks better to SOME people (not at all to me) and it's become known as being very helpful to those players whose hands do sweat. A very glossy finish will make damp hands actually stick more.
Carlos
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Dec 4, 2006 1:21:02 GMT
when erhu playing is a hobby, it is easy.
my friend had surgery to cut her nerve endings to prevent sweatings. Involves 2 incision under arm pit, deflate lung and laser burning at spine...
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Post by calden on Dec 4, 2006 2:06:14 GMT
Wow! That's what I call a committed artist!
Carlos
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Post by wanggx on Dec 4, 2006 3:53:17 GMT
Is it ok to put powder on my sweaty palms?
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Dec 4, 2006 12:01:55 GMT
usually yes, but if the sweat is like my friend, who went under the knife for erhu (no joke!) the powder forms a cake, and it gets worse! i have got a video of her performance. View it here: www.yousendit.com/download/8hfDOgucbWx5TA%3D%3D |
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Post by damien on Dec 4, 2006 14:17:55 GMT
Not good for you and we all get enough of it in our daily diets but why don't you eat more salt before a performance. This should stop you from sweating to much.
Cool video, she plays really well.
Going under the knife really is dedication for the Erhu, but i could think of other ways to stop sweating.
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Post by calden on Dec 4, 2006 15:34:27 GMT
Nice video. It's very interesting to hear how the piano was used in that performance. I normally don't associate piano with erhu. In fact, I usually intensely dislike western instrumentation with traditional music. I'm like that with western music, too - I hate hearing "modern" isntruments played with, say, fretless clawhammer banjo.
But this really worked! I'm glad I don't take my conceptions of "western isntrument" and "traditional" too seriously!
Carlos
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Post by sanmenxia on Dec 4, 2006 16:33:00 GMT
I've only got a slow dial-up connection, can anyone tell me who is playing and what is the music in the video?
I agree about the satin finish, I've got a cheap erhu where the neck's been finished in a glossy varnish, after I smooth it down with some emery paper, my hand (non-sweaty!) doesn't stick it it anymore. Of course this is not a problem with high quality erhu with a wax finish.
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Post by davidmdahl on Dec 4, 2006 18:00:54 GMT
Powder may not be the best thing for those who sweat a lot. That has not been a problem for me, so I don't know of other alternatives. I wonder what other bowed string players do.
Maybe more erhu performance opportunities in hot rooms will force me to find other solutions for sweat. It has been a problem at times when I played the Vietnamese monochord. So far, a little powder has done the trick. I still wonder if fingerless gloves might work.
Best wishes,
David
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Dec 5, 2006 0:30:53 GMT
She's a young teacher in my school, and she played
"First Erhu Rhapsody" It is, in short a crazy piece....
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Dec 5, 2006 0:32:10 GMT
She's got a very high quality erhu. The problem is, her sweat used to hit on rosin when she plays in 5th position, an dit bsticks, and it gets brought up and moves along.... and sticks everywhere... Get the drift?
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Post by wanggx on Dec 6, 2006 1:59:45 GMT
Wow! The yi kwang's fabulous! She's teaching in Music Fantasia?
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Dec 6, 2006 2:15:45 GMT
yupz
she is li bao shun's student. Our 2 erhu teachers are her and kong yan yan. Mr Zhang Bing Zhao aged 65 is teaching only senior citizens
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Post by simon18i on Dec 11, 2006 4:50:44 GMT
Arhh.... the file expired. eager to hear after seeing those comments. anyway can put on u-tube?
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Post by jtangsw on Dec 26, 2006 4:50:58 GMT
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Mar 31, 2007 16:50:05 GMT
will go on U tube soon, after i get directorship
She is logged onto my account at times. Some terribly professional erhu posts done today were by her.
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Apr 3, 2007 14:12:49 GMT
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Post by Si on Apr 5, 2007 5:15:50 GMT
I dont really understand why somebody would want to aspire to imitate birds on any instrument....................
bird watchers use special whistles for this purpose - surely they are good enough
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Apr 9, 2007 14:16:32 GMT
This piece has its setting in the deep forests of Yun Nan (Southern part of China near Thailand Laos and all that) - perhaps that explains the bird calls in the introduction.
There's a whole harmonic part in the middle of the piece. I liken that part to a conversation between a nightingale and a cuckoo. It sounds really nice against the running notes of the piano. It's like having flowing water as the backdrop. At least that was what I had in mind when I played the piece.
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Post by jetz320 on Apr 9, 2007 23:28:57 GMT
Immitations on instruments are part of what make me like them. Like the erhu playing Racing Horses and also the dizi when flutter tounging and the high notes are close to a bird. The songs to me sometimes are made for a specific instrument because some certain sounds and techniques can immitate a certain animal. I once heard a song from a friend playing the native american flute and she in some points made it sound like a humming bird. The song was about humming birds. I think that these are what make instruments so unique from one another and to me, what makes me like them.
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Post by dsouthwood on May 6, 2007 20:56:33 GMT
One of my main objections to using talcum powder to make sliding easier has been the smell. Searching for unscented talcum powder on the internet, I found that SCUBA divers frequently use talcum powder on their wetsuits, and that most dive shops will carry "Trident Wet Suit Eze Super Slick Powder." For those of you who live inland, you can find it on the internet. There is also another possible source, though: When I was telling a friend how I had solved the problem, my friend, who is a potter, replied that she has a 50-pound bag of talc in her studio, and I would be more than welcome to take some.
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