PICTURE POST!
As you know, I'm a sucker for aesthetics, and you can't really say that this is ugly, can you:
[I explicitly said that I did not want a boring, "普通" stand like VSCO's, AKA -this-. Unfortunately, 乐海's advertising on this stand is irritating.]
[ooh, iridescence.]
[the strings began to rust after one day! Now that I have that stupid anti-rust, it's time to prevent further damage to my otherwise-unmarred instrument.]
[this sort of thing loses its intended effect once you realize that virtually every yangqin sold comes with this sticker. =.=]
[Disclaimer: I did not ask for this to be taken. Wee Bian is just skilled with cameras.]
[aww, lookie! There I am! ^^ Click to enlarge.]
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Lol, the China scholar who plays yangqin came for practice today, so I, err... eavesdropped on his practise session. He was playing, err, what was it again... oh ya, 喜送公粮 and 小猫钓鱼, the former of which is basically an accompaniment score for erhu, and the latter of which is a grade 1 piece (a cute one, at that, hehehe... =.=).
Evil Sulwyn came over and told him that I'm "very pro", so he decided to, err, chat me up - I felt damn awkward standing there nodding my head while struggling to understand him through his accent, but finally I got the gist that he was asking me how long I've played for, whether I'm Singaporean and then he asked me to play something for him. At least, that's what I THINK the gist was. =.= Language barrier, you see. Eheheh... =x
So I played the intro of Tujia and even though my final arpeggio run screwed up, it still garnered a weak smattering of applause. Yayz0rz, total ego boost.
Lol, anyway this totally made me remember what happened to me in Sec 1, on the very first practice, as Clement (the then Sec 4 yangqin player) and I were walking across the Parade Square:
Clement: "I'm so glad you came! I was hoping and predicting that somebody who learnt yangqin before would join VSCO, otherwise the section will die. It looks like my prediction came true!"
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