Musical Instrument-Xibili

2010-4-23 18:23:00 From: cri.cn

Xibili is an ethnic musical instrument. Xi here means slim. It is highly popular in the Korean autonomous region of Jilin province and other communities inhabited by the Korean people. It is loud and has a powerful tone.

The instrument has a very long history, the earliest ancestor of which is the ancient bili. Xibili is made up of the pipe whistle and the body. The pipe whistle measures 4 centimeters long, which is made of the reed without the hard-shell. The body part is made of the bamboo pipe. It is twenty to twenty-five centimeters long and about 1 centimeter in diameter. There are seven holes on the frontal side and an alt hole on the back.

The performing of xibili is quite similar to that of most play wind instruments. While performing, the player should hold the pipe straight and put the whistle in the mouth, with the hands pressing the holes respectively.

There are alt, mediant and double bili. The traditional alt xibili can only perform one tune, but later designers have added a hole above the sixth sound hole, so the instrument in all has two and a half octaves and can switch the tunes. The mediant instrument is more or less the same with the alt one in function, but the former is one octave lower. In comparison with the alt and mediant instrument, the double piped xibili is the combination of a big and a small xibili with the similar alt tones. Each of them has a pipe whistle. During the performance, the pipes can be played singly or simultaneously. The double piped xibili can be much louder than the single one. It has a clear tone and changeful skills.

   

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