SIHE RUYI (QIAO)
SILK AND BAMBOO MUSIC OF EAST CHINA
四合如意 (桥)
江南丝竹
China Records, 1982, HL-103
From the area called Jiangnan comes this lovely instrumental music played on er-hu, dizi/xiao, pipa, yangqin. The name ''silk and bambou'' refers to the kind of strings used in the past and the bamboo used to make flutes. This is music from the South of China where cities like Sizhou, Hanzhou or Shanghai lie. The musicians are Lu Chunglin on flutes (dizi/xiao), Zhou Hao on er-hu (bowed string instrument), Ma Shenlong on lute pipa and Zhou Hui on cymbalum yangqin. There are only 3 tunes on this cassette, 3 of 8 great pieces as they are called locally.
I got some information about this cassette from a blog I discovered when posting this article called http://huqinblog.blogspot.com and dedicated to traditional Chinese music and more specifically to bowed string instruments like huqin, erhu, etc...
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