China Good Technology: Matouqin

Speaker: National Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project Matouqin Production Skill

Matouqin is a Mongolian musical instrument. Its history can be traced back to the stringed instruments during the Tang and Song dynasties, which has been more than a thousand years. According to legend, a shepherd made a piano with its skin, bone, mane, and tail for the dying pony, and carved the horse head at the top of the piano handle, so he was named.

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I was born in the Hulunbuir grassland and grew up listening to my father's Matou's piano since I was a child. The broad and magnificent melody quietly took root in my heart. At the age of 17, I started to learn Matouqin's production skills and learned it for 6 years.

Matou piano has three main parts: piano head, piano rod, and piano box. The piano rod is long and the piano box is small, which is convenient to clamp between the legs when playing. The piano box panel was flat and unaccompanied, and the sound beams were "tough", and the sound was high.

The old saying said, "Grandpa is raised, grandson is made of piano." One piece of wood can be dried up naturally after ten years, and it doesn't work! In addition to good materials, good Matouqin also has to have both "sound" and "type".

Matouqin, Matou is the soul. Carving the horse head, you need to touch the "soul" with "inspiration": the horse head is hundreds of postures, and even the mane also has a stubbornness, a stubborn, and a stubborn or running state. The shape of the seeds carry a ingenuity.

The sound modulation should work slowly, listen to the piano box, and polish the thickness of the piano box surface, and the cycle repeatedly until the sound is up to the standard. After installing the piano, you must also fine -tune, that is, the impact of subsequent processes such as polishing on the piano box by regulating the position of the pillar is used, so that the Matou piano sounds the ancient desolate, magnificent, majestic, and unrestrained sound.

With the continuous innovation of the manufacturing process, the range of Matouqin has expanded to 5 sounds, and the multi -sound portion ensemble can be completed separately. When the Beijing Olympic Fire was passed in Matsuhara, the 2008 Matouqin played, setting a Guinness world record, and its unique artistic charm shocked the world.

(Reporter Ren Shuang, the reporter of this newspaper, Li Lami interviewed and sorted out)

Source: "Guangming Daily" (01, September 12, 2022)

Editor -in -chief: Wang Yuanfang

Edit: Zhu Xiaofan Sun Xiaoting

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