Tropical Harmony Erhu Ensemble

Singapore Chinese paper Zaobao (早报) wrote an article on the 20th February 2011 on Tropical Harmony Ensemble - which is made up of Japanese erhu ladies learning erhu at Eason Music Pte Ltd.

U double bass flute by Xie Bin

There is a new flute in town.




It is a mega, huge, long double bass flute. Too log that you have to curve it into a U shape else you will not be able to reach with your hands.

It comes with 2 dimo hole instead of one.

The fingering is similar to that of a Xiao instead of the dizi.

Here's how it sounds:



Priced at US$329 each. Available keys are C and D. Shipping worldwide costs US$22.

Please email tansungwah@gmail.com if you are interested.

Pirastro Red Dragon Erhu Strings

We just listed Pirastro Red Dragon Erhu Strings on our online store.

http://www.eason.com.sg/products/string_access/meh35.jsp

If you are not sure what to buy, take a look at this blog post:

http://tansungwah.blogspot.com/2009/11/annual-erhu-strings-award.html

They are very good sounding strings and easy on the fingers.