FYI, empire's chinese instrument group just performed in MPO hall, and was on TV already before...

lol obviously it's gu zheng, nobody will think of long nails when playing erhu...

yong1990 you don't need guts to learn, you need money.

i should be going for the saturday instead of sunday.

lin cho liang is a fantastic world class violinist, and although i'll sound like a dumb by saying this, it worth the price of the ticket even by just listening to him playing anything on his Stradivarius violin (made from Stradivari's peak of his output quality, not just a "regular" stradivarius).

i might be joining the 2nd day of CNY (saturday?) at empire's house.

oh i think CNY 2nd day is friday. 2nd or 3rd is fine with me, you guys decide.

faceless, i actually enjoyed your stories very much, especially the china history. fascinating! haha if you can call me professor then that kuai loh playing with KG is GOD already lah wei...

i tasted empire's roasted goodies before, unique and nice. but hoh don't angry ah empire, i like your cake better than anything you've let me tried.

definitely can't join you guys this saturday...you guys enjoy!


i THINK the first 2 is brandy and whiskey...

if the above 2 is correct, then wu liang yeh should be the chinese wine:
http://www.wuliangye.com.cn/en/pages/index.xml

This post has been edited by little ice: Feb 7 2011, 11:52 PM

siew lam...pork rib? siew (roast) lam (belly, "lam" as in "tou lam")?

el cerdio (cerdo) of changkat bukit bintang?

gonna miss some great food and wine...

not going to join your guys this saturday, cause teaching basically whole day, and by the end of the day i'll be pretty tired. you guys enjoy!

i'll confirm asap ya.

no particular reason, it's the tradition. just like western music, why 12 semitones?

my take on the pentatonic is that you don't have semitones by taking out 4 and 7, and harmonically 1 2 3 5 6 works very well with various chords. you can keep playing pentatonic notes randomly with any diatonic chords.


if you tune it that way, your guzheng will become koto.

i'll call that japanese pentatonic. upon googling, that tuning is called "hirajoshi" meaning "tranquil tuning".

This post has been edited by little ice: Feb 14 2011, 11:15 AM

nice meeting you guys. big thanks to subangman for the excellent roast duck and wine, faceless for the titbits, and empire for the cake. i left early and i hope you guys were still enjoying after i left.

lol didn't you watch stephen chow's kung fu? that guy's guzheng got air blade coming out one. very cool.

upon searching, apparently wu liang ye is 68% alcohol...one of the highest alcohol content wine available commercially.

you use your profession all the time, so profession user = professor?

nevermind...

This post has been edited by little ice: Jun 14 2011, 08:22 PM

well, not trying to help anyone specifically but...

if you don't already realize, jie xian's english probably isn't strong enough to express himself. we're not seeing each other so it's very easy to misunderstood or misinterpreted.

jie xian probably did not mean it, but it was indeed a very bad joke, unless jie xian is very close with faceless like father and son or super close friend for 10 years or so...which is what jie xian meant when he said "too friendly", suddenly he thought everybody became a family and can talk freely where everyone won't take it seriously.

i don't see it as a serious matter.

This post has been edited by little ice: May 13 2011, 10:22 PM

nevermind...

This post has been edited by little ice: Jun 14 2011, 08:23 PM

rosin is made from tree resins (go and make a scratch on a mature tree and you'll see those sticky liquids flowing out), when it's processed and harden it'll become rosin solid. rub horse hairs over it, the rosin will rubbed into white dusts and the horse hair will pick up the dusts. brand new horse hair on the bow is silky smooth, it'll skid on the strings rather than gripping it, so you need the rosin.

This post has been edited by little ice: Dec 14 2011, 02:28 PM

hey all,

it's been a long time since i last read this thread. being a non-chinese-instrument player i'm a little embarrassed to post something as i couldn't help with anything really, apart from the rosin thing lol.

...and that was some really heated conversations going on lately!


sorry for completely missed your call. was actually busy during the CNY as it arrive at such a weird timing, feels like CNY only lasted a few days and back to work again.

i'm interested to join the next gathering if you guys welcome a bolakang people like me. i come see see you guys play can already. mixing in violin is pretty weird.


i'll contribute to that! want G-yok or no G-yok since subangman suggested HR day?

thanks!

bowing meditation on erhu will be interesting. i've heard lots of erhu players on youtube playing classical piece. i even see horse head cello (mongolian) playing turkish march.


then i try bring some nice g-yok.