The encirlement...encircling... en circle somethin

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:45 pm

yo... my school had this wiggoty whack assembly today with the shanghai traditional instruments orchestra performing and this one dude had this like chinese mandolin thing with like a bajillion frets and he played something called the encirclement or the encircling or something about a war between the han and some other dynasty in 200BC. It was f'in incredible. way more impressive than classical gas, stream or any other onlyguitar no lyrics song. does anyone have anymore info like a recording or a tab...?

edit: the instrument is called the pipa

MWR · Unread post by **MWR** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 5:24 pm

praisedave wrote:yo... my school had this wiggoty whack assembly today with the shanghai traditional instruments orchestra performing and this one dude had this like chinese mandolin thing with like a bajillion frets and he played something called the encirclement or the encircling or something about a war between the han and some other dynasty in 200BC. It was f'in incredible. way more impressive than classical gas, stream or any other onlyguitar no lyrics song. does anyone have anymore info like a recording or a tab...?

edit: the instrument is called the pipa

I'm not entrusting you to make that declaration. :wink:

I'm curious though. Let me know if you find a recording.

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 8:53 pm

MWR wrote:
praisedave wrote:yo... my school had this wiggoty whack assembly today with the shanghai traditional instruments orchestra performing and this one dude had this like chinese mandolin thing with like a bajillion frets and he played something called the encirclement or the encircling or something about a war between the han and some other dynasty in 200BC. It was f'in incredible. way more impressive than classical gas, stream or any other onlyguitar no lyrics song. does anyone have anymore info like a recording or a tab...?

edit: the instrument is called the pipa
I'm not entrusting you to make that declaration.

I'm curious though. Let me know if you find a recording.

well i thank you for trusting me (bitch) and i am confident that i am right... this guy had like long gurli fingernails on his right hand and he was plucking the strings one with each finger by just unrolling his fist and he was going at like the speed you tremolo pick but with different notes. his left hand was flyin too (faster than that dude that posted the vid of him playing stream with the clock) heres a pic of the instrument:
http://www.szkp.org.cn/gusugongyi/art-i ... a-pipa.jpg
his was almost exactly the same except it had metal frets. its like less than an inch thick
he had his hand way up on the high frets that are like on the body. he held it like vertically in his lap... it was really impressive.
if i find a recording i will post it.

edit: pic of some 1 playin it
http://lovetree.uhome.net/upload/vote/pipa.jpg

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 9:00 pm

this is a pipa solo... no where near the like 5-6 minute one i heard but you can get a sense of what the instrument sounds like
http://www.amrep.org/people/wuman.html

6_strings_for_life · Unread post by **6_strings_for_life** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 11:06 am

wow man, thanks alot for looking into this. Now if I am ever at a party and somebody asks me if I know was a pipa is, i can be like "hell yea". Thanks again, that thing sounds real cool!!

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:42 pm

6_strings_for_life wrote:wow man, thanks alot for looking into this. Now if I am ever at a party and somebody asks me if I know was a pipa is, i can be like "hell yea". Thanks again, that thing sounds real cool!!

im still pissed i cant find a recording of this jaunt... if anybody is going to see the Shanghai Traditional Instrument Orchestra (thats likely) take a tape recorder and record it, it blew my brains out. Still lookin...

CWMCALL · Unread post by **CWMCALL** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:59 pm

This doesn't belon in "General Guitar Discussion" if any moderators are reading this please move it to the "General Pipa Discussion"

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:38 pm

if there only were...
they are very similar though both in sound and manner of play

gumbomadness · Unread post by **gumbomadness** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:34 pm

cool...but is it more impressive than ERIC JOHNSON- CLIFFS OF DOVER?

mangold · Unread post by **mangold** » Thu Oct 14, 2004 5:49 pm

i dunno give me a sec to download it eh!

edit: thats was cool but the encirclement was far more difficult (id imagine) i cant even explain how unbelieveable it was... well it was really really good

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