How to select quality Pipa

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people playing the pipa, whether beginner or have been playing the lute will be, will want to buy a beautiful appearance, high quality, easy to play, sound beautiful, durable lute. how to choose the time of purchase, mainly from the lute material to back the raw materials, the points have the most upscale, high-end, the block, sub-block of four. The most upscale is rosewood for back material, sound the best, most expensive, feeding back the current block of red sandalwood Pipa little, although, but two or three pieces of red sandalwood from the material blocks. high-end material is mahogany back, mahogany many varieties, of which the old wood (the color was black and red, is also very difficult to buy to) the new mahogany (light red color, can buy on the market today are mostly the kind of mahogany lute) for back material, sound good, the price is a little expensive. midrange is rosewood, mahogany back Hong materials sound is still good and affordable. sub files with the white wood (such as the (hole) of wood, etc.) to do the back material, sound is poor, the cheapest price.
back Zhengliao the best, most expensive
as whether to use beta What materials do back, most of the material used on the back block does not like to use material from the back of a few spells. because of the back with a few spells expected, when the new purchase, the appearance, sound would not be affected . but with a period, the juxtaposition of the Department will see the traces to fight, if degumming, sound will deteriorate. on the entire back of material, it must be to see whether cracks or deformation.
how to distinguish red sandalwood , old mahogany, mahogany on the back of new materials, can be the pass behind the back feed at the top of the paint scraped off with a knife, then use the test method or watch it with the naked eye to distinguish the wood grain and color. If the color of the wood of red sandalwood Inspection will not test can not read the words, or you will see people with the selection, because there are too few red sandalwood materials, can not help but have shoddy.
Yamaguchi, six-phase, phoenix pillow materials to cost price, the points are ivory, jade, white horns, black horns, aggregate, wood and so are several. like the shell of the most expensive, the cost of the cheapest wood. the first flower points with ivory, jade, aggregate, such as several species. Jane subdivision ivory, rosewood, boxwood, rosewood and so are several.
the first degree, chord grooves, Zhen child to be absorbed from the lining of heterozygosity
Pipa appearance, head size, string groove curvature , the slope of the four sub-Zhen and the length, thickness and so beautiful contrast to uniform heterozygosity based. grinder should be fine, paint color to elegant. Pipa neck (six phase-Office) should not be too thick and too broad, the first grade the Department should not be too thick and too broad, too wide if too thick, the left hand will feel very tired by sound, not conducive to the sound by the left hand action, short fingers, especially women, even more effort.
with the first phase should be carefully observed A product of the left lateral end of the first string and the lateral end of the fourth chord distance of the stone is similar. Frequently the first string with the first product from the left lateral side of the shorter, the fourth string with the first product the right distance from the outer end of a long, in the sub-string playing, Central Office, or by the Pass holder was left open string or the average of it.
complex hand side were level to re-hand side should
was horizontal, not semi-circular curved shape was, first of all it is related to pronunciation , was followed by semi-circular curved shape, the body up when the string tension, the hands of the mouth in the complex was under the strings of the body concave, where the body will be easy to break strings.
smallest first string, the pitch also the highest, the use of more, for which the first string most likely to fracture, often have to change strings. usually in complex sub-string to wear hand-turn below the hole, are sawn to a trough, through this trough in exchange for strings can save time for strings. But some producers, only saw a very fine groove, the actual change in the string, you can not use this groove to change strings, so that this groove useless.
so it groove width of a number of articles we should also be required to re-hand side of the trough at more than remove some to pass easily this trough for the principle of attack strings.
goods can not be ignored relative to device
products and phase are phonemic devices on the pipa, the location of each product have to be very accurate sound sticky discharge. Each product and between products from top to bottom, from wide to narrow and very uniform arrangement. in particular, should look at the upper end of the Eighteenth taste the distance between the body and the strings should be in the O.4 to O.5 cm; such as the distance over O.6 cm, next to feel tired by the time sound. To this end, String body and eighteenth of the distance between the top products over O.6 cm goods are produced on the ills, should be advised to re-do change.
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volume to listen to loud and strong and full of stone tone of the lute, is the first choice of target buyers. a sound good lute, playing it will love to let go. more love playing more rounds, it can be said is really When bound to look first to play and listen to its sound.
sound, the older generation of musicians has cited a , pine, crisp, explosive sound all have five. After the pronunciation is very sensitive strings; music can be conveyed away. One Church, Pine and the explosion in the production, there is a great contradiction. for example, can emit sound pipa Hall and on the loose, most of the stone can not hear the voice of explosive blast can be issued and full of stone of a solid the sound of the pipa, the church lost most of the sound with the song. In what can be done on a pipa, a large volume, the reaction is very sensitive, but also a stone can chang the sound of a firm tone, which is the production of Pipa master their goals, but also make the technical problems will not be described in detail here.
best
Lankao panel paulownia panel technology to produce, for better or for the texture panel ring, with the pronunciation of the pipa the most direct, most closely related. In the past, panels are used in Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Indus planks. After many experiments by contrast, are now the growth of the Indus by Henan Lankao board to production. However, the Lankao Paulownia board will have Guizhou Province. but once in a high-quality Lankao Paulownia trees, and only two the best plate. is to be elected to the optimal paulownia board, which in turn is produced when the master in their choice of materials of a science.
panel central to the fight are good
buy pipa, you can only see the appearance of wood grain panel is straight; grain and grain width between the panel if there is appropriate knots fight at the panel on whether the central gap (panel to be on the fight, some saw the heart of the tree, the tree part of the heart, hard texture, poor acoustic part or on the left and right sides removed), etc., others such as bead depth, width, and thickness of the beam position, width, column speaker's position and the size and shape, is sticky character beams, bore the curvature and depth are good because, from the appearance of invisible.
hard water stable adhesive panel sound panels are used over the last stick fish fat, and now mixed with pig fat in the fish glue, which is the glue with water. using glue to stick with water panel pipa, played a five or ten years, the volume of sound will change. because after a certain period of time, the gel gradually evaporate the moisture, volume, tone must change. Therefore, the time of purchase, must ask whether to use a water clear plastic.
panel is also useful for chemical adhesive glue. many kinds of chemical glue, and some sound better just stick a good panel, but has not yet passed the test of years of practice and its sticky fastness, sound whether there are changes, etc., can not reach the right conclusions.
reflect the sensitive volume, tone solid pick the best
pipa, hearing the voice, the volume usually like big, wide sound flood Pipa, ignoring the sound solid (explosive) areas the rich voice of stone. We passed a large volume of proven, sound of the pipa wide flood, most of the voice of the lack of stone and solid sound after playing for some time, although the volume is still large , but the audio gradually lose wood and water and mucus have been gradually reduced with the rules. Therefore, when selecting new pipa, must not just by big volume, stereo width of flood, but there is no stone should listen to the voice, tone, whether of weight, very solid. Generally that the wish to select the volume is not the biggest, but the reaction is very sensitive, sound is better than thick.
attention to local climate characteristics
pick pipa, hearing the voice, and pay attention to regions. is the production of wet areas south of the pipa, or the production of dry areas in the north lute. common in the south a large selection to the volume, the reaction is more sensitive, sound is not change sound effects-based, should take into account the dry areas with the changes after. So choose pipa in the south, the volume should choose not the most, more solid sound (explosion) as well. Even if the production of dry areas in the north, pipa, If not immediately used for performances, but also wish to select a solid sound (explosion) of weight for a number of good this end, the selection must learn to listen to identify the pipa ; lute length of the ideal.