Musical Demonstrations of 二胡 (erhu) and 籥 (yue)

An instructor of traditional Chinese instruments came to our university (DungHai University in Taichung, Taiwan; I enrolled here for summer Chinese and Taiwanese language courses) and gave a few short demonstrations of playing two classical Chinese instruments: 二胡 (erhu) and 籥 (yue).



Video 1: Instructor playing the 二胡 (ㄦˋㄏㄨˊ) "er4 hu2":

"Erhu"




Video 2: Instructor playing the erhu





A closer look at the parts of the erhu:











(Image taken from this site)



Video 3: Instructor playing the 籥 (yue), which was described earlier in the follow-up report to the Confucious celebration: