Er Hu 二胡

Have you ever heard relaxing sounds coming from this musical instrument "Er Hu"?

I took the four-time lessons for beginners.

Er Hu is a Chinese instrument having two strings. In case of violin, the horse hair on a bow is separated from its strings. On the contrary, Er Hu's hair on a bow is inserted between two strings. Players move the bow to the outer string for higher sounds and to the inner string for lower sounds.

I enjoyed many Er Hu performances on Youtube, but I never knew at all the bow is not separated from the strings. 

In the first step, we had to learn how to pull and push the bow smoothly to lessen the screech noise, blurred and unstable sounds.

In the second step, we practiced the scales. This instrument has no fingerboards. The teacher taught us how to stop the strings with fingertips.

Anyway, we managed to play "Twinke Twinkle Little Star" with a certain noise pollution.

New try brings new joy.