Super-Skilled Luthier Crafts Chinese Guqin from Raw Cedarwood

I am a violin maker I'm rather clumsy always making guqin the slow handcrafted way producing sounds that echo the voice of heaven and earth —nature's own music Since ancient times those who have admired the instrument have been scholars and literary figures Chop with a knife chop with an axe—come to catch catch the zither that's called catching A good instrument one might say is an instrument in the world capable of producing true music when played When making this instrument I considered what its sound would be like decades even centuries from now— 1952 I came to Beijing from my hometown to begin my apprenticeship Back then I made many musical instruments It wasn't until 1972 that the first guqin was made and people would literally crawl into this pot to pass through the parts of the guqin Bow the qin Since the Tang Dynasty always covered the copper with a fa The older the wood the looser its fibers become and the richer the instrument's sound grows Making a guqin isn't overly complicated the main thing is the scraping process Within a single piece the thickness isn't uniform—edges aren't all equally thin How thin it gets depends entirely on the wood's softness or hardness There's nothing shameful about making a guqin each ancient zither's material is unique and only by touching it can you truly feel the difference The thickness within the soup determines your tone quality Repeatedly striking sound Repeatedly tapping Let it ring out clearly Since ancient times inscribing one's name within this zither has allowed future generations to judge the quality of its sound