CHANGTU, Jan. 29 (Xinhua) -- Gong Zhiguang is an erhu artisan in Changtu County, Tieling City of northeast China's Liaoning Province. He has been interested in woods since his childhood and got enchanted almost at the very first glance at erhu making in the ancient way. Since then, he has devoted himself to erhu making for over twenty years.
The making of erhu requires many steps such as material selection, processing, assembly, leather covering, polishing and tuning. Each of the steps is essential, and no inattention is allowed during the processes, otherwise deviation in timbre may occur.
Nowadays, some of the processes can be finished by machines, but the key part still needs to be finished by hands. With the processing by Gong and several other artisans, the instrument company named "Hairu" they are working for is a producer with a yearly output of nearly 2,000 erhus.
"A traditional musical instrument in China," Gong said, " erhu always inspires my hope with its melodious sounds that more people could play and fall in love with it."
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