第1个回答 2008-07-27
The pipa forehead retroversion, the vulture has the long-lived character, Le Zi, pleasant and so on styles. Tuning pin is fixed string ,the adjustment pitch place, it by the ivory ,the buffalo and cow horns, the padauk teak manufactures becomes. The pipa has eight 30 ret, is the same with the guitar on, may play the note. (ledgd) is also with the ivory, the buffalo and cow horns, the padauk teak makes, (fret) with bamboo system, when manufacture boils together the bamboo and the Chinese medicine, causes the surface to be smooth, and not Yi Shengchong. Underneath pipa's turning over the palm (tailpiece) uses for to live in the string fixedly another end. Pipa's kneading board (belly) wraps the entire qin surface, now uses the growth to manufacture mostly in the Henan Lankao's Chinese parasol tree. Pipa's back (padauk) makes with the sandalwood, also some use the padauk teak (mahogany), or ormosia henryi (palisander). Between pipa's kneading board and the back is hollow, here is the sound box (sound box). When moves the string in the time sound box to have the sympathetic chord, will have the musical note. The pipa has four string (strings), several small-gauge wires (wire) outside is wrapping the nylon (nylon), protects performer's finger not as for the attrition, simultaneously enlarges the volume. Four strings thick vary thin, the 1st string is thinnest, is softest, timbre (timbre) brightest, pitch (pitch) highest. The 4th string is thickest, is hardest, the timbre is low and deep, the pitch is lowest. Now some pipas look like a fine artware, on qin inlay have the jadeite (jade) gem (jewel), on the kneading board the picture has the gorgeous flowers, carves decorative patterns in qin's back, carves characters, to engrave the poem