November 4, 2015
Suzhou Erhus from MMK Suzhou Erhu maker MMK and us go back a long way. We met him quite a few years ago in Shanghai […]
October 29, 2015
Your Optimal Qianjin Position Every Erhu player has different arm and finger length. Some have short fingers and some have rather long fingers. The position of […]
October 22, 2015
2 Ways to Fine Tune Your Erhu About 95% of Erhus come with friction pegs, and all the good/expensive/valuable Erhu come with friction pegs.If you have […]
October 8, 2015
Marking Your Erhu for Better Intonation Good intonation on the Erhu is always a struggle for Erhu players, especially beginners. Unlike fretted instruments such as the […]
March 25, 2015
Assessing an Erhu from Pictures Recently, I received an email from a customer saying that his old erhu sounded grainy even after applying rosin on the […]
March 1, 2015
Troubleshooting Erhu – Scratchy Open Strings Once in a while I get customers who email me that their erhu has a funny sound. While we set […]
October 30, 2014
Erhu Buying Guide – Snakeskin The snakeskin on the erhu is widely considered to be its most crucial component. It is often regarded as the instrument’s […]
June 26, 2014
How to take apart your Erhu Following our previous blogspot on Erhu and their baseplates, we have done a video to show you how to disassemble […]
June 8, 2014
Erhus and their Baseplates Today we are going to look at…..WHAT LIES BENEATH THE ERHU…. We have removed the baseplate of 5 different erhu makers, to […]