1/11/2009 02:04:00 PM

Xiong Ying and the Pipa

So I have been taking private Chinese lessons twice a week. My tutor is Xiong Ying (pronounced similar to Shiong Yin) is great and turns out she is also very talented. I saw her playing the Pipa, a traditional Chinese instrument, at a show at her college and asked her to play it for me so I can record it. Unfortunately my digital camera sound capture quality is not great and consider that she is playing in a classroom without great acoustics and the temperature is about 5-10 degrees Celcius. All that having been said, I think it still sounds awesome. I put it on Youtube.com and you should be able to watch it directly below (I hope, I am new to posting videos):



If it's loading too slowly jut go to this link and it will go faster: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRgwDuQ0tL8


Be sure to listen to the last 1.5 minutes, that's where it's really impressive. The song she is playing is a very old Chinese song which describes a famous battle...

1 comments:

Houdini said...

That, frankly, is amazing. The video can't really even begin to catch all of the finger-work from her right hand.

Thank you for sharing!