Product Description
One of the best models of Cellulose-Silica Membrane Erhus, this its made to rival the traditional python Erhu at all levels, allowing the performer superb ease of performing technically challenging pieces with ease and dexterity often afforded by the very top end erhus only, at a fraction of the cost.
Every piece of the wood is weighed, measured and sorted by density and weight, and based on the given figures, the appropriate thickness of the skin is customized to make this erhu. We are able to calculate the exact optimal resonance of the entire instrument body and produce the ideal erhu membrane.
It has an unmistakable sweet tone of the Sandalwood, along with the mellow low resonance required. At less than half the price of a traditional python skin erhu, we are inclined the believe that this will be the way to protect both the ecology and the art of erhu in the coming decades.
EcoErhu started as a project in 2009 to replace the snake skin membrane in Jinghu, the Peking Opera fiddle, as it was prone to weather conditions and split whenever the weather got too dry. As we progressed, we realised that the sound of the instrument can be improved upon by fully mimicking the natural structure of the snake skin. The project slowly expanded to include Erhu, Gaohu, Zhonghu and Shamisen. As required by the international markets, Erhu became the focus of our research and in 2011, EcoErhu was formed, with specialists in material engineering, chemistry, Erhu performers, composers and musical experts leading the way. The first Patent for EcoErhu Version 7 was filed in late 2013 - EcoErhu Membrane with the unmistakable Erhu timbre, and yet no requirements for the unnecessary killing of animals, spared from the unpredictable weather, and for the first time, we can fully replicate the actual details of the python skin membrane structurally and at the cellular level for its making on the erhu and other instruments.