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Wednesday, 14 January 2009, 21:28

hi! today was another fun day at music fantasia! Our day started off with THEORY LESSONS. We learnt all about open and closed piped theories. It is a very difficult concept to grasp, the physics of the instruments! Thus I shall not go into it, if you'd like to know more about the theory behind how instruments are made. You can visit the UNSW website for more information. It is under the physics theory on open and closed piped instruments. An example of an open piped instrument is the flute, it has two open ends. An example of a closed piped instrument would be the Clarinet!



After the theory lesson, it was time to make the kou di! and it was FUN!! our kou di was made using acrylic. Each kou di was rougly about 3 inches? yepp and we had to saw the long tube of acrylic to get our kou di!! It was a really tought job. You must have alot of strength to do it, but I did it! I sawed quite a few. after that, yinhao helped us to drill holes into our kou di! There is no actual measurement as to where the hole should be. Yin Hao says that it is by experience that these kou dis are made. As in every musician would rougly know where to drill the hole in to create the correct pitch! However it is not easy to drill the hole into the kou di as anytime the kou di may fly off or jus break as it is just acrylic. It is 50% chance that your kou di does not get broken into half. Luckily for me, our of the four acrylic I decided to us for myself, only ONE BROKE! Of course yinhao did the drilling as it was dangerous. After the holes were drill into our kou di, we're almost done! But first we still had to buff the edges to make them smoother.


After that we had to make our kou di look SHINY. Thus we use sand paper to get rid of all the scratches. After that we just had to buffer it using a machine and its all done. Tomorrow we'll be learning to make the dizi. As bamboo is heavier and more sturdy compared to acrylic. We'd get to drill the holes into our dizi by ourselves. Its gonna be all hands on tomorrow.



Here are pictures from today! Mag has the rest=)


MAG! UNGLAM WAY OF CUTTING THE ACRYLIC! i was doing that too.














MY TWO CUTE KOU DIs!














look at how small they are! the length of my finger.














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