Mahogany Guzheng's Mahogany Guzheng

Mahogany series guzheng is mellow, crisp and bright, suitable for playing lively modern music; Golden nanmu series guzheng is full of charm and simple and elegant timbre, which is suitable for playing more classical music. I am often recommended to buy mahogany guzheng in a musical instrument store and asked what mahogany is. Let me give you a brief answer.

Many guzheng manufacturers claim that their instruments are "mahogany", but some mahogany instruments are very expensive and some are very cheap. The concept of mahogany should be said to be rather confusing. Let me tell you something about it.

Mahogany has always been a furniture material, not a special musical instrument material. The traditional wood varieties of court furniture in Ming and Qing dynasties are mahogany and yellow gorgeous. By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, rosewood and Huang Huali were almost used, and they were replaced by acid branches. The sour branches are shaped like rosewood, the heartwood is purple with purple stripes, and the fresh wood or water is sour when wet, so it is used to be called mahogany in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Subsequently, all hardwood products made of rosewood, rosewood, rosewood, ebony and chicken wing wood were called mahogany products, and the above-mentioned Woods were collectively called mahogany, and the name of mahogany began to spread widely throughout the country. So the so-called mahogany is a general term established by convention.