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Post by Charlie Huang on Jul 5, 2005 12:11:03 GMT
Well, 'tis only less than a month before I get to meet Zeng Chengwei at the Qin Summer School in London! I'm gonna ask questions on qin making in particular. Hmm, must select a piece I am to play at the yaji during the Summer School...
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Post by carol on Jul 15, 2005 20:44:29 GMT
I met him years ago in Taiwan and acquired a guqin from him, but didn't have chance to talk to him much.
I'm always wondering, how can he makes the qin sounds so loud with such small sound box.
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Post by Charlie Huang on Aug 4, 2005 18:54:46 GMT
I met him! He was a very outspoken kind of guy, chatty. His teaching method was different to Li Xiangting's. He liked to teach face to face, plus he wanted to teach only Shu school pieces. We took it in turns every session. Plus we chose from a selected list of Shu pieces to learn. I learnt Liu Shui (a very different version from the one we are use to hearing, it contains a lot of different techniques that are uniquely Shu, and he says that the Shu version is the 'original' version as his ancestor was the one who complied the Tianwen Ge Qinpu that added the gunfu sections) and Kongzi Duiyi [Confucius reads the Book of Changes]. I learnt a lot from him. He said that my playing was too rigid and too forceful, and told me to relax my posture, which really worked. Other pieces he taught were the rather long Pei Lan, Tao Yuan, Qiu Shui, Zhuiyu Changye, etc.
During the seminar, he talk about how he makes his qins, and it was very different from the Yuguzhai Qinpu method. Very straightforward and easy. He also talked about the Shu style of playing during the yaji, thought he said yaji's were meant to be about playing qin and not lectures!
He also sort of fixed my bridge (see the buzzing and yue shan thread).
Would have learnt more, but I was also doing pipa as well during the summer school and had an ensemble piece to figure out.
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