Aug 23, 2009
How to Choose Erhu
When it comes to choose an erhu, you need to understand well enough who would play the erhu and what is his/her playing techniques?
For the beginner, those made of rosewood/redwood by most Chinese makers would be enough, while such an instrument may cost something between usd100 to usd200 (not exactly the same) without the shipment cost being included. And it is absolutely not necessary for the beginner to have a premium instrument as it is not easy to maintain for them, and it may one day loose the value it should have without proper maintainance.
Another thing is, most beginner (in fact also the experienced) would like to have sound and video clip of the instrument model they prefer before going ahead, indeed it is totally not necessary as the fact is: even the instrument itself is a basic one, while if played by the master, still one can achieve a fairly good result, so, it is indeed confusing for such clips, isn’t it?