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Thursday 23 July 2015

The chinese Erhu, 2 string Fiddle

Erhu
This is taken fro my old website from 2003-4 I believe.  Just found it again and thought I would re-post it.

Old damaged cheap erhu made of elm and another light hardwood.  I replaced the broken snakes skin with vellum and made a base of yew wood.  The instrument was then refinished in semi opaque black/brown shellac and restrung.

 

With the new base and painted black

 

 

here is a sound clip of a cheap snakeskin erhu I have to to compare
http://www.michaeljking.com/images/erhu_snakeskin.mp3

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