Wang Ning Mei

[stochastikos]

wow

[OrsinoDuke]

R.I.P, Chen xiaoxu

[pipurrcat]

u have a yamaha tenor, thats cool. i have an aulos tenor recorder.

[Taevara1]

Beautiful!! So much atmosphere.

[astolenheart]

the movie is very sad the english title is DREAM OF THE RED CHAMBER

[cinderbutte]

a very lovely tune and a nice image to go with it

[harddhunllef]

What kind of flute is this...

it sound so beautiful

[recorderdevoix]

Thank you! It's a plastic Yamaha tenor recorder. The great acoustics in the hall of the school where I recorded it also helped a lot.

[Koriyama]

Lovely, emotive stuff here. Maybe this video more than anything else will remind you of your time in the Middle Country.

[recorderdevoix]

Thanks. Yes it will remind me of Xiamen,China, where I first heared and fell in love with that tune. How about some tunes from the Land of the Rising Sun from you?

[wangquanquan]

right,that is indeed the cause.Thank you for acceptting my suggestion.I am so glad.

[wangquanquan]

Thank you for uploding the moving video,but I suggest that You had better correct the error.

[recorderdevoix]

I think I discovered what the problem is. (You probably already know this.) Although Chinese characters are written the same all over mainland China, Chinese people pronounce the words quite differently in different regions. If one pronounces a word incorrectly, one might also use an incorrect pinyin spelling. For example, a Chinese Mandarin teacher at my school pronounced it, and thus spelled it as: Wang Ying Mei! Only after checking it, did she realize that it's "Ning" and not "Ying".

[wangquanquan]

wang ning mei or wan nin mei?

[recorderdevoix]

Good question! I speak very little Chinese. It often seems difficult getting the correct pinyin translation of the Chinese. My friend who helped me with these terms here in China says, "Wan Nin Mei".

My apologies for any errors.

[Brentvoad]

Very atmospheric and moving. Excellent.

[recorderdevoix]

Thank you!

[FilmyResidue]

Very beautiful.

[recorderdevoix]

Thank you!

[CoryKhouri]

RecorderDeVoix!

Most Excellent! I'm learning Recorders lately. What scale were you using. Were you using a straight pentatonic scale - did you have keys or tone holes that you had to keep closed the whole time?

Thanks for an awsome performance;

Cory

[recorderdevoix]

Thank you! I don't think about scales much, but yes, much of Chinese music uses pentatonic scales. Living in China, one hears these beautiful melodies almost every day. I learned this one from a local CD I bought here, the Chinese version is, of course, much better than mine. The tenor recorder is a plastic Yamaha with two keys for the low C and C#. I don't recall having to keep any one tone closed the whole time. Be sure to check out the many other videos from other performers on my Channel.

[FlamingRuby]

So pretty!

[recorderdevoix]

Thank you!