Gaohu!

Right now you must be asking what Gaohu is, so it is a chinese instrument so famous in SF, specifically in Chinatown, obviously! 

This instrument has influence from Erhu, another chinese instrument. It was created in twenties by the musician and compositor Lu Wencheng. He basically had changed Erhu, which has two ropes, for just one rope and she created Gaohu! The sound of Gaohu is higher than the sound of the Erhu because of that change.

There are compositors who made a lot of musics specially for being played on Gaohu, like Liu Tianyi and Lu Wencheng who made more than one hundred musics! I bet that you didn't know it!


If you look at the picture above, you will be looking at the most important chinese instrument which has already used in both Cantonese music and opera.


Enjoy this sound!