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Erhu Tuning

The most used Erhu tuning is: inner string to D1 and outer string to A1.

The reasons behind can be easily understood that the Erhu instruments is used to express the feelings people have and in some cases used to emulate people’s sound, while tune D is the lowest and A the ...

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 ...