Thursday, 22 January 2009, 20:27
Hi all! The past few days at music fantasia we have been busy making our erhu! It has been a tiring process, alot of strength is needed to tighten the python skin onto the the body of the erhu. But our instructor wu laoshi has been most helpful and patient with us. A lot alot of strength is needed to pull the strings tight onto the erhu. Eh the way the erhu is being made at music fantasia is different from in china. It's music fantasia very own SECRET METHOD. Thus we arent really allowed to post any pics or disclose the whole process. If not it wont really be considered a secret right after all, this is the real money making world. Music fantasia's method of making an erhu is definitely better than the method used in china as they have tried and experimented before they decided this method is the best to produce an erhu that sounds and looks good! Thus we feel quite honoured to be taught how to make a erhu.
However, it is really no joke to make one. This past wk, everyday we have been working on our erhu. Hopefully our end product will be good! After we finished what we were supposed to do with our erhu today. Yinhao brought us to a cha guan at bras basah to learn to make tea and appreciate the finer art of brewing tea. It was really fun and our teacher was very nice. The first tea we drank was the green tea. Iynyi has all the details as to how the green tea is to be brewed so as to attain the best smell and taste out of it. I'll just include a few information that i can remember.
The first step is to wash all the cups and teapot with hot water. This is basically to kill germs and when u pour the tea into the cups the smell of the tea will come out more. The water used to make the tea cant be too hot, approximately about 80degree celcius. One way to check that the water isnt too hot is to look at the bubbles. Small bubbles means its just right, the bigger the bubbles the hotter it is. So of course when the water is boiling at a 100, the bubbles are like big and bubbly. I took a video of how you pour the tea into the cups and everything. It is not a whole process, but if you're interested, do watch the video.
The next tea we brewed was the tie guanyin. It tastes sweeter than the green tea. Lastly we also drank a tea called dong fang mei ren. This tea is from taiwan. personally, i like the dong fang mei ren the most. haha, its a really nice tea and of course the name is nice too! We got to try to brew the tea too. There is a certain technique to it, from washing the cups to pouring the tea for people. Of course with practice, your technique will only get better. here are the pictures from today!=)
I will upload the video tmr!! uploading all these pics has alr take me MORE THAN AN HOUR! do enjoy them though. shall place tags on them too, TMR. BYE ALL.
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