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Post by lumry on Feb 20, 2006 19:39:46 GMT
i was wondering but does anyone know what that instrument is called, that looks like a clarinet ....it's used in the hong knong chinese orchestra...and does it use the same fingering as a clrient?
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Post by sanmenxia on Feb 20, 2006 19:49:58 GMT
It's prob a suona modified with keys.
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Post by lumry on Feb 20, 2006 21:38:28 GMT
the fingering for it...is it clarinet fingering?
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Post by davidbadagnani on Feb 20, 2006 22:52:11 GMT
There are at least two modernized Chinese instruments that look like a western clarinet:
1) the modernized suona, with metal keys, often up to the length of the Western oboe, but sounds more like a Chinese suona. It has a conical bore like the suona giving the characteristically piercing sound. It has a double reed.
2) the modernized guan, with metal keys, often up to the length of the Western clarinet, but sounds more like a Chinese guan. It has a cylindrical bore like the guan, giving a mellow, clarinet-like sound, but it has a wide double reed instead of the clarinet's single reed.
I haven't examined either of these instruments up close but probably neither of them have fingerings based exactly on the western clarinet's fingerings.
Maybe some other wind instrument specialists here know more about these instruments than me.
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Post by YouLanFengChune on Feb 21, 2006 0:23:03 GMT
Hi!
It should be the Diyin Guan, or Guan a fifth lower than traditional, but uyses Brahm's fingering system. Its awfully hard to play, and i have played it just once for a concert without much credit.
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Post by davidbadagnani on Feb 21, 2006 3:25:22 GMT
Is "diyin guan" named the same as the Chinese name for the bassoon?
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