Very nice to meet Helen from Bejing and listen her qin made by Zhang Yiqiu from Beijing, a well made qin. Also listen her story from Beijing where I've always want to visit but have not get a chance yet. Her story filled some empty spots in my heart. Her qin strung with metal string, sounded pretty loud. Helen said that her qin on my qin table sound even louder. I can hear the exceedingly sound stay pretty long which sometimes interferes upcoming sound. I compare this qin with my 'meditation mind' silk string qin and realized that no wonder some people who used to play metal string cannot stand silk string and they would say that couldn't hear the silk string. I realized that their ears must have already used to such loud and long exceeding sound. So lower than that level, hard to hear.
After couple hours chatting with Helen, I decided to change her qin to silk string, and I did. The result was very satisfying. We both like the sound came out of her qin very much.
昨日寒冷, Helen的造訪溫暖許多
雖讓她在惡劣的氣候下等候火車多時感到有些不好意思
但整個下午的暢談讓彼此心中都溫暖不少
聽她說著北京的故事
讓我這一直嚮往著北京卻尚無緣一遊的心填補了些許空虛
她帶著北京張以秋斲的鋼絲絃琴來
我彈的手感挺不錯就是聲音很響亮
餘韻很長, 長到會干擾到接下來的出音
這在絲絃琴上絕對感覺不到的
我又彈了我的靜心絲絃琴
頓然瞭解到為什麼有彈鋼絲絃的琴友說聽不到靜心的聲音
那是在已經習慣於像這樣的鋼絲絃的琴聲的耳朵
便無法聽得見比其聲小許多的聲音
兩個小時的自在彈琴談琴之後我決定幫Helen的琴換上絲絃
結果另我們倆都很滿意
絲絃柔和了許多本來的火氣
也還是可以聽的很清楚
我又再次肯定自己為什麼那麼鍾愛絲絃的聲音
