Zhuihu

The Zhuihu (Chinese坠 胡, Pinyin zhùihú, also zhuiqin or zhuizixian called ) is a stringed instrument of traditional Chinese music.

Construction of the instrument

The Zhuihu has two with a bow -to-play strings, from a covered with snake skin tone body ( corpus ), starting, be brought to a fretless fingerboard. The strings are pressed during game play with the fingers of one hand to produce different sounding tones against the fingerboard.

Use of the instrument

The instrument is used as a solo instrument to accompany traditional, narrative songs, which are called Zhuizi. These narrative songs were originally from the Chinese province of Henan.

In the orchestra used to imitate the Zhuihu human and animal voices.

Related instruments

Since the 1920s, the Leiqin was developed by the Chinese People's Artist Wang Dianyu from the Zhuihu that has great distribution both as a solo and as an orchestral instrument. In Japan there is a related instrument that Kokyu.

• String instrument
• Chordophone
• Music ( China)