Last week I had my second course with Master Yao. He had required me to play the sections 1-4 of Da Hujia to him before we began our course. It's really a challenge to do this especially Master Yao had said that learning Da Hujia for me is just like "Jumping to the heaven by one step." Finally Master Yao praise me. He said that now I can produce beautiful sounds on right hand plucking, but still too tight on left hand. He also said that I have good potential to learn Guqin, and I already have a very good instrument made by Ma Wei-Heng. He accepted to teach me the small piece "Jiou-Kuang". I hope I can learn something from him every year! I found that the concept of "beautiful and comfortible sounds" is very different in China. They insist that the third string should be F. In this situation, you must have a forceful right hand and a very very relax left hand, or you cannot produce a clear, bright, bold ,full-bodied and resonant sound, because the strings is very high-tensioned. But actully, this kind of sound is too big and not sophisticated in some lyrical pieces. Of course, it is very suitibale to the school of Yao. Those ancient pieces from "Shen Qi Mi Pu" or "Xi Lu Tang Qin Tong" really need this sound. Master Yao told me that the most beautiful sound produced on earth is Master Gong Yi's playing. I had heard his playing on CD, in class and in concert, I think I cannot agree him more. Gong Yi's playing is incrediblly beautiful! I would also add Cheng Gong Liang to the list. He plucks the string between "1 huei" to "4 huei", this is a technique developed by Guang Ling school, thus the player can vary the tone color in wide range. I must stop here for having a date with a shanghai girl tomorow . This is the second I dating with here, and surely not the last. I must date with at least one girl every week. You guys should come Shanghai, because my sister here told me that "we always have too many girls, but lack of good guy " . When I visted my sister's friend, she even said regretfully that if I came shanghai one year early, her beautiful daughter must be mine! This week, my homework is the notoriously difficult section 9 "Wrighting the Letter by Blood ". Challeng again! H.P.Yeh -- 一溪流水漱成冰 六马嘘天四座倾 未是幽情堪动处 试听徽外两三声 --

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