How did I learn to play erhu?

First, if you have "three hearts", you can achieve anything

That has to start from the first grade of junior high school.

in the spring of p>1954, I was in junior high school (Grade One) in Cangxi Middle School. One day after the mid-term exam, by chance, I heard an alumnus playing the erhu, and the piano was melodious and melodious, which was really touching. So I fell in love with erhu and made up my mind to learn it. However, how can you learn without erhu? What should I do if my family is poor and I have no money to buy it? Strangely enough, once I like what I'm determined to do, generally speaking, I can definitely do it-because I like it, I have interest and enthusiasm; Because if you make up your mind, you will have motivation and perseverance. In this way, everything can be thought out, and any difficulties can be overcome, not to mention at all. I took advantage of the busy holiday (short for school holiday to support agriculture) to go home. First, I went to my uncle's house and asked for a piece of red bean wood (even the best material for making erhu here). According to the size I prepared in advance, I painted ink, sampled, disassembled, glued and polished-although I didn't even have the minimum knowledge of carpentry, I actually made the piano tube. It goes without saying that I was happy. Then I went up the mountain to "dig a hole to find a snake to play" and got the leather membrane-although I didn't know anything about the membrane on the new piano at that time, I asked everywhere and sold it hot, and I actually covered the snake skin. The piano shaft and the piano rod were also made one after another, and a new piano was completed at first sight, but how could I make a bow without a ponytail? We were here at that time, not to mention horses, not even donkeys. Where can we get ponytails? Buy? Nobody sold it (in fact, someone did, and I didn't have the money to buy it at that time? ）。 It's really urgent for me, alas! There is a saying: people are quick to get wise. Based on the principles of friction, vibration and vocalization in physics, through association and screening, I quickly found a substitute---------------------------------------------------------------and made a piano bow Piano, string, bow (including rosin), everything, is so crude and shoddy (but it's all done by myself). When I moved the bow by hand, the coarse brown silk on the bow (rubbed with rosin picked by myself) rubbed the old string that others had used no longer and vibrated and sounded through the piano barrel (* * *). At that time, my tears were brushed from. Tired? Still sad? No! Not at all! It's music! It's fun! It's excitement! I am so excited! So a burst of crazy pull, vented my inner depression when I didn't have a piano in the past, and released my inner joy when I had a piano today. Ah! How happy we are! Hi! We're really, really happy! Really? I'm so glad!

I went back to school without waiting for my vacation. I can't put the new piano down, let alone the enthusiasm of playing it. It's hard to express it in words. What can I say? Just be realistic! When I get up in the morning, the bell rings-Kill the chickens and kill the ducks; As soon as the bell is over-kill the chickens and ducks; After three meals-Kill the chicken and kill the duck .................................................................................................................................................................... At first, I was afraid of others' jokes and scaring others, so I hid in the dormitory and killed them. Later, when I killed too much, I couldn't care less. I took the piano to the classroom during the day and killed it after class. After self-study in the evening, I took the piano back to the dormitory to kill it (before turning off the lights or after getting up). I am not afraid that you will laugh. In order to gain time, I am running to the toilet. Because of my devotion, I killed chickens and ducks every day, which touched some senior Hu friends (including the master elder brother who played the erhu melodiously and heartily, and made me like it-Hu friends called him that at that time). They all cared about me and tutored me, so I made rapid progress. At the end of the term, I was formally accepted as a member of the school band and participated in the accompaniment! It takes a total of two months from playing the piano well to joining the band. When I summed up this learning experience, I summarized it like this: three things will make it. Three hearts are: first, we must have determination, second, we must have confidence, and third, we must have perseverance. Later, when I became a teacher, I realized the profound meaning of the sentence "Interest is a better teacher than responsibility".