Pictures of your qin

[Charlie Huang]

I'm sure we'll all like to share our pics of our qins (with or without us in the same picture ). Here's mine!



EDIT: Oops! Bit too massive! LOL! ;D

[twilight]

it's sooooooooooooo pretty ;D is there anyway we can hear a piece of your playing?

[Charlie Huang]

Emmmmmmm.... Sorry! I may have mastered sticking pictures on the web, but I don't have a clue how to stick music files on the web! Will have to record it somehow, compress it to MP3 somehow, and somehow find a place to stick it in... all of which I haven't got a clue to do!

Oh well... ;D

[blueharp]

This isn't from my guqin, but check out the goose feet! Can you imagine having them on your guqin?
Steve

[Charlie Huang]

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!

Sorry, but I'm not all for having dead bits of animals being attached to my qin.

[blueharp]

I thought they were carved from wood. I think it is interesting that someone took the name of the part - goose foot - so literally.

The guqin is a very serious instrument however it might be fun to have a pair for those occasions when a bit of goofiness is called for. ;D

Steve

[gubaba]

So how do I post pictures, exactly?

[gubaba]

So maybe I have couple of pictures of the backside of my qin, maybe I don,t.]
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[blueharp]

The inscriptions are reproductions of the inscriptions on the Jiu Xiao Huan Pei that is now privately owned.

The inscription below the pegs is the name of the guqin which I believe translates as "High Heavenly Jade Pendant". The one closest to the feet is the maker's seal (I think).

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but I believe the calligraphy style is known as "Seal Script".

May ask ask how long you have had it? Do you like it?

Remember I suffer from MIAS (Multiple Instrument Acquisition Syndrome) and feel the need to get another guqin coming on. ;D

Steve

[Charlie Huang]

Yes, it's Seal Script. The seal is a strange seal script though.

[gubaba]

I've had the instrument since August. I like it but I wouldn't know a good one from a bad one. Any guqin is better than no guqin.

It has the new tuning block/pins. I find this assembly to be semi-useful. When tuning the strings seem to stick without effecting the tuning until enough tension builds up and the string shifts. It would be difficult to tune the instrument using just block/pins. I still use the pins at the other end of the string for fine tuning.

What I like about the instrument is that it is rather quiet. If I get a chance to play the instrument it is late at night. The erhu will wake up the littlest one everytime.

I like not having to mess around with picks, stands and 21 strings like the zheng although I do like the zheng alot. My zheng is a student model purchased from Baymusic via eBay.

I have a pipa from Violinking. It is probably the poorest quality instrument I have and the one I like to play the least. Pipa picks just don't do it for me.

To finish off my collection I have a couple of erhu's. One is one of the "Dunhuang" models that everybody on the forum seems to have and the second is a student model I purchased in Guangzhou back in July. The $18 Suzhou from Guangzhou doesn't sound much different than the Dunhuang.

I've got MIAS also, obviously. I have considered getting a da sanxian but the pick thing keeps me from going for one.

Lloyd

[Dick]

Pick Thing on san xian shouldn't stop you, should it? I understood picks was strictly optional on san xian. The Taiwanese videos I've studied show the san xian player using just fingers. That's a northern style, right?