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gracias!

Thank you for these amazing videos that you share, I can't wait to be able to buy an Erhu that I saw at Sound of Mountain Music, then I will be doing online lessons with 8 tones music school, In future I would love to purchase some of your clothing, when I saw those Erhu T-shirts, I went crazy, I love them

Hi, Mrs. Patty. I have a problem where it seems like the correct note positions for the D string is slightly out-of-tune on the A string. Does this problem have to do with my strings? Thank you! Greetings from Indonesia

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Thank you Mrs Chan now I got it 👍 🙌

Mrs Chan, you start with D by open String than index finger to the third and 4th finger and than you play the A String or am I wrong?

Interesting video Mrs Chan, can you tell me more about your book please 🙏🏻

Thank you Mrs Chan, beautiful song 🎵

Hello Mrs Chan, very useful for me as beginner. I will look your first lessons vidéo to start from the beginning ✨️

Dear Patty, is very nice the documentary. It is so important to maintain the essence, the origin of your own country, no matter what country you are from. It is a beautiful story. I hope to visit you soon in 2025.

Someone told me number notation is best but I can already play piano so I can read notes 🙂

Loving your videos I have ordered some erhu stickers so I can no were to put my fingers I can’t wait to get a Erhu

Thankyou for these videos I am buying a Erhu soon to learn and your video will definitely help in putting it together

I just bought my 1st erhu. thanks for showing me how to assemble it

非常好的陳女士!

Thank you so much for your video :) May I have a question? I play the violin and I did not know much about erhu and after byuing it I cut the Qianjin which was attached to the strings. I really thought it was only to keep the strings to deliver it safely...... :/ what can I do? can I attach any string to it? any material? I tied the 2 pieces of the Qianjin , it is 47 centimeters long and ''tied'' . Should I try to attach it to the erhu?? Or maybe I should buy another one?

Hello Mrs. Patty thank you so much for being my first Teacher 😊, i learn Erhu from you and your videos are amazing ❤

Thank you very much laoshi! those scale lessons helped me very much. love you.

@Patty Chan Hello, thank you so much for your exercises! I just began my Erhu journey and I would like to know if I should practice this with tuner on?

Amazing! thank you so much

very enlightening and motivating video, certainly we should continue to explore and understand our root which is important part of our growing up to learn about our culture in order to continue to pass on to next generation and of course music is one of the most effective way to get everyone together be it the same or other races.

Nice video. But something important appears to be missing, which is - it's probably important for students to know exactly where to put the hand - the exact position where the hand needs to be in order to have a chance of hitting the correct pitch. Otherwise, if nobody knows a procedure for knowing where to put their hand along the neck of the erhu (relative to some fixed reference point), then the finger could likely press the string in the wrong spot, and so get a significant error in pitch. That is - when an erhu player takes a short break, and then picks up their erhu (with no visual markings to work with) - and resumes playing, then how exactly do they know where to put their finger. Is there a visual reference point - such as the qianjin is a reference marker?

Thank you. It would be nice if done with more close ups on your hand placements and bow

I noticed on some videos they start the stringing by attaching the string first to the base. You started at the top attaching to the tension handles.

Excelente enseñanza maestra y gracias por enseñarnos!

This was helpful, Thank You!

If D-A (3dot,4dot...7dot) are suppose to be the low octave notes, why do we play them the same way we would the regular octave notes in the 1st position, does the tuning of the Erhu change with each key to adjust for this or something that I dont see clearly in the video?

D'addario now makes Erhu Strings.

Two things I've read that weren't mentioned in the video and which may not make that much difference: - I've seen it recommended to wrap the strings down the peg (toward the neck) one time, then cross over the wrapping once. Not sure how much difference this makes as long as they're not winding across each other several times. I think maybe the single wrap-over is supposed to help prevent slipping or something. - One of the Eason Music guys recommends wrapping the strings away from the neck to get a little more upward tension on the qianjin ("nut"). Again, not sure how much this really matters, and in my case I use one of those fine tuners that attaches to the neck and lifts the strings away from the neck anyway. (they seem much easier to use than the ones that just hook on the strings.)

Hi! Thanks for these videos! It's great to see more instructional videos for the erhu since there aren't many. One minor technology request: You could put your instructional videos into a playlist and share the playlist on your profile. This will make it easier to find them and play them all in sequence. Thanks again....

Hi! I have an old erhu I want to fix and learn to play. Do you have a suggestion on where to purchase new strings & bow? Thank you🥰

How tight show the bow be? I've seen a number of instructors. Some maintain it's best to use a tight bow, other say loose.

Hi Chan，thanks a lot for sharing! I'm in Beijing, where can a buy your book? or can i buy ebook? Thanks

is it necessary to have big fingers to play erhu? my fingers are very small (especially the pinky) i'm afraid to buy an erhu and that will be a big obstacle

Thank you very much Patty Chan! your explanations in these videos are very helpful for learning how to play correctly :D

Nice video Patty. But can I ask an important question? The pitch of the erhu depends on exactly where the finger is pressed along the erhu string, right? So when practising the erhu (including scales) - is there a particular method used by an erhu player to 'calibrate' their hand position along the neck of the erhu? Also, the 'qianjin' tying point for one erhu might be a different level on another erhu - so would an erhu player need to re-calibrate their hand and finger position for different erhu instruments? It is known that erhu players can reliably hit the right notes all the time. The all-important question is - how do they calibrate their initial reference position?

The real question is… where do I find this t-shirt? I just ordered your book, I can’t wait!

Pequeña precisión: la escala de la demostración no es do mayor, sino re dorio

Hi Patty! I think that I put too much rosin on the bow, and as a result, there is now too much rosin on the strings. How can I remove the excess from both?

Great choice of song, completely forgot how much i enjoyed this game until i watched this

Thanks so much for teaching us! I understood everything perfectly. I was inspired to play Erhu after hearing a musician play and my Erhu will be arriving in the mail in a few weeks!

What an amazing tutorial, thank you so much Patty!

Just after watching this great video, I learn more about TCO's past historical process, and the team members' dedication and perseverance have led to today's achievements. I have been immigrating to Canada for more than 45 years. When I was working, music could relieve my stress. I accidentally heard an erhu playing in the Early Spring of Jiangnan, and I fell in love with the erhu instrument.

that was a great video - i think of toronto as a place with much more chinese musicians than most places around this area of us/canada, and i didn't know of this history! I do love the song with the erhu and the viol! i love both of those instruments so much -

When I was once asked by a music examiner why did I picked up the Chinese music , I told him I was trying to find myself through the process of learning. Our desire to find our belonging is in line with human nature. Our conscience and our instinct. Sincere Thanks for the inspiration.

i wish i could get my erhu to sound like that

Hello! I'm left handed and holding the erhu right handed feels uncomfortable. Is there a way to set it up for left-handed playing?

Do you find the erhu finger charts that you can stick onto the erhu useful or should they not be used?

Is it possible to over rosin the bow? How much is too much?

Hello! My erhu has just arrived but the string came really loose. Even though I tried making them tighter but they just keep unraveling. Any suggestion of what I should do?