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The Gehu: Perspectives from Transcultural Organology

Nathan Lam | Society for Music Theory 2024 | AWM/Timbre IG

Keywords: organology, Chinese New Music, visual studies, timbre, erhu, gehu, cello

Media links

Ad-hoc cello/bass hybrids (not the gehu)

https://www.hkco.org/en/Instrument-Rd/Chinese-Instruments/Bowed-String-Instruments.html (current HKCO webpage)

https://www.hkco.org/en/Instrument-Rd/Eco-Huqins.html (currrent HKCO wepage)

https://www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/mo/aboutus/funzone/intro_music/chinese_eng_gehu.html (2000s HKCO webpage)

https://wmic.net/china-gehu-cello/

HKCO’s feature of their low-huqin section
HKCO’s feature of their full huqin section
Revival efforts by Wu Yuxin

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