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Harmonica (English: Harmonica), a multi-reed musical instrument that uses the mouth to blow or inhale to make metal reeds vibrate and produce sound; in the classification of musical instruments, it is a free-reed wind instrument. Because the source of sound is a reed between 1.5 and 3.5 centimeters in length rather than a column of air (such as a flute), the volume of the solo harmonica is mostly within 20 x 6 x 4 centimeters (length, width, and height), and its range varies slightly depending on the type and tuning, and can be roughly summarized as 1 octave below center C to 3 octaves above center C, covering about 3 to 4 octaves.
Basic introduction:
Harmonica, free-reed aerophone. A small wind instrument. The body of the instrument is rectangular, its size, length varies, there are many shapes. Common for the 24-hole double-reed harmonica, with natural scales. In addition, there are bass harmonica, octave harmonica, chord harmonica, altered tuning harmonica and so on. The general length of the instrument is about 16 to 20 centimeters, there are two rows of small square holes above and below, equipped with a number of free vibrating reeds, air flow forced through, flexible metal reed vibration pronunciation. All harmonica rely on the air into or out of the holes vibration reed so as to pronounce, and move back and forth, blowing different holes to send out different sounds.
The blues harmonica is equipped with a pair of reeds in each hole, and the player exhales one tone and inhales another; the polyphonic harmonica has the same pitch because of the adjacent upper and lower frames, and the adjacent left and right holes are blown and inhaled, so the mouthpiece is placed in a place of about four squares when it is played. The old way of playing the polyphonic harmonica is the same as that of the blues, while the new way is to play with 7 holes in the mouth (i.e., 14 squares), the tongue covering the left 6 holes, and releasing rhythmically for accompaniment. See the tutorial for details on how to play the accompaniment. Each pair of reeds is generally tuned to an adjacent pitch, e.g., exhaling produces an E note, inhaling produces an F note. The harmonica described above was invented in Germany in the 19th century, and was based on certain harmonica improvements brought to Europe from Asia.
Harmonica playing can be highly artistic, and skilled players can create a variety of effects by varying the articulation of the tongue and the pressure of the airflow. The harmonica is mostly used in folk music and occasionally in popular music such as rock. In addition, serious music composers have taken an interest in the harmonica and have written music for it, among them D. Miyo's Suite for Harmonica and Orchestra and Vaughan Williams' Romance for Harmonica and Orchestra.
Basic Classification:
By purpose, the harmonica can be roughly divided into two categories: harmonica for solo performance and harmonica for ensemble. The former mainly includes polyphonic harmonica (including accent and echo harmonica), chromatic harmonica and blues harmonica, etc.; the latter has bass harmonica, chord harmonica, brass horn harmonica, etc..
By the way of articulation, it can be further divided into single-reed articulation and multi-reed articulation. Chromatic and blues harmonica belong to single reed articulation, and children's toy harmonica as well as necklace and keychain harmonica also belong to this category; while polyphonic category, chord and bass harmonica belong to the latter.
Hulusi, also known as "gourd xiao", is a musical instrument of the Yunnan ethnic minorities, mainly in the Dai, Yi, Achang, De'ang and other ethnic groups.
Hulusi can be categorized into three types: high, medium and low tones, and is commonly played in the keys of B-flat, C and D. It originated in Dehong Dai, and is now played in the same key as the Hulusi. Hulusi originated in Lianghe County, Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, and is mainly popular in Dehong and Lincang areas of Yunnan where the Dai, Achang, Wa, De'ang and Brown ethnic groups live, with rich local colors.
Hulusi (also known as hulusi Xiao) is one of the unique musical instruments of Yunnan's ethnic minorities. It is mainly popular in the Dai area in western Yunnan Province, and is also popular among the Brown, De'ang and other ethnic minorities.
The Dai people are multi-talented and can sing and dance well. In the festival, no matter in the river rowing dragon boat or in the riverside put "high rise" (with bamboo tube made of clay rockets), or in the square "to catch the swing" or in the bamboo building drinking feast, can be heard the moving sound of music.
Hulusi is loved by primary and secondary school students, music lovers and Chinese and foreign tourists because of its unique and beautiful tone, rustic appearance, soft, elegant, easy to learn, small and portable.
The traditional gourd silk is a reed instrument, its structure consists of a gourd and two (or three) bamboo tubes, gourd upper end for the mouthpiece, the lower end of the three bamboo tubes connected to the gourd for the sound tube, which, in the middle of a thicker and longer bamboo tubes for the main sound tube, the main sound tube front has six tone holes (according to the sound holes), the back of the upper end of the sound holes for the seventh according to the sound holes, the lower end of the overtone holes (out of the sound holes) and the two string holes. Two stringing holes. The main tone pipe is fitted with a metal reed at the top, inserted into the gourd, and its end is fitted with a soft stopper.
The secondary main tone pipe has no sound hole, so the reed-equipped secondary tone pipe is inserted into the left or right side of the main tone pipe of the gourd. When the gourd silk is blown, if the soft plug at the bottom end of the secondary tone pipe is taken out, the sound of the reed-equipped secondary tone will sound with the main pipe, but the tone of the secondary tone can only be sent out as a tone. Now the commonly used gourd silk has C key, small D key, B-flat, F key, G key, E key and so on several kinds.
The pottery flute China unearthed the world's earliest pottery flute, more than 4,000 years ago, was thought to be a different kind of ocarina, after the expert group research is confirmed to be the ancient pottery flute. Pottery flute (English: Ocarina, also translated as foreign ocarina, tile ocarina, soil flute, Ocarina flute, drum flute, etc.), the current international popularity of most of the pottery flute is a kind of origin in Italy, the shape of a submarine, there are whistles, usually fired with clay wind instruments.
Tone range:
Soprano flute, alto flute, bass flute.
The soprano flute is represented by the symbol S , and the soprano flute has the key of C flute, the key of F flute, and the key of G flute, which are SC, SF, and SG respectively.
The alto flute is represented by the symbol A, and the alto flute has the key of C flute, the key of F flute, and the key of G flute, which are AC, AF, and AG respectively.
The bass flute is represented by the symbol B, and the bass flute is usually the key of C The soprano flute is usually in the key of C, or BC.
There are also other symbols:
The soprano flute is in the key of C (1C), in the key of F (3F), and in the key of G (2G).
The alto recorder is in the key of C (4C), F (6F) and G (5G).
Bass flute C key (7C)
Number of holes:
4-hole flute, 5-hole flute, 6-hole flute, 7-hole flute, 8-hole flute, 9-hole flute, 10-hole flute, 11-hole flute, 12-hole flute,
and even more than 17 holes of the flute. The common flutes are mostly 6-hole flutes and 12-hole flutes.
The 6-hole flute can play 10th notes with cross-fingering, and the 12-hole flute can play 13th notes with smooth fingering.
The number of pipes is divided into:
Single pipe flute, compound pipe flute.
The double-barreled flute, also known as double-barreled or triple-barreled flute, compound means more. Due to the limited range of the flute, when playing tunes beyond its range, in addition to switching to a different key of the flute, you can also choose to use the double-barreled flute. A double-barreled flute is made up of one or more additional pipes added to a regular conventional flute. The main part is called the main tube and the additional part is called the attached tube.
Common compound pipe flute for a single attached tube or double attached tube, single attached tube flute main tube plus attached tube two have blowholes, two *** sounding cavity, so also known as "double pipe flute" or "double cavity flute", double attached tube flute is also called The double attachment pipe flute is also called "three pipe flute" or "three cavity flute", there are three blowholes, three *** sounding cavity. Compound pipe pottery flute generally have have 18 holes, 24 holes and 32 holes three kinds of specifications. The range of this kind of flute can reach more than two octaves, but also can play the harmonic effect, mainly for professional players to use.
While the compound pipe flute is just equivalent to combining several flutes together, due to the special characteristics of the production of the flute itself, in addition to the consideration of the structure of each **** sounding cavity, the impact of the openings on the comfort of the fingers and other issues, but also to consider the main tube and the attached tube of the volume of air and the balance of the tone. Therefore caused the compound pipe flute production difficulty, low yield, relatively high price.