Welcome to our Chinese/English Cigar Box Guitar Cultural Interest Group
Needless to say, most Chinese people have never heard or seen a cigar box, much less a cigar box guitar. However, the guitar and guitar music is very popular in China, especially with the younger generation. So, introducing them to cigar box guitars and related music is a natural extension of those interests. A major barrier is language, so one important part of this group will be to assist in translation. And this new version of the Ning software now supports Chinese characters as well as Pinyin, so providing word lists, translator tools and the like will now be possible. I'll start things by providing some useful word lists, and we'll see how it evolves from that.
Lesson one: How to say "Cigar Box Guitar" in Chinese
Chinese Characters Pinyin (phonetic alphabet)
cigar box guitar = 雪茄盒吉他 = xuě jiā hé jí tā
where:
cigar = 雪茄 = xuě jiā
box = 盒 = hé
guitar = 吉他 = jí tā
-Rand.
Started by Rand Moore. Last reply by Rand Moore Jan 29, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Chinese music is often characterized by their Pentatonic scales, but they also have some non-pentatonic scales. Here's a heptatonic scale called the "Oriental Scale".…Continue
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Hi Everyone.Recently I have become interested in pentatonic scales. This interest came about after modifying one of my 2-stringer CBGs so it would become a chromatically fretted instruments. The…Continue
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Started by Rand Moore. Last reply by Rand Moore Jan 8, 2011. 1 Reply 0 Likes
December 24, 2010 I hope some of you find this list useful. This is an ever evolving list in terms of both formatting and content. Right now, it's just a dump from a text file I had compiled last…Continue
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If you are looking for a good dictionary try this one. http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php
Even the right pronunciation and the correct order of the strokes is shown.
再见
Hi all,
Very interesting, a Chinese interest group. I have been studying Chinese language for some time just for fun. The machine translation below is not perfect like any machine translation, but I can understand some of it.
Well, now I can access that ning (Friends of the Mountain Dulcimer, http://mountaindulcimer.ning.com), so I guess I'm mistaken. Let me try a couple other Nings (Cigar Box Guitars Australia & Hand Made Music Clubhouse). Yeah, I still can't access those two Nings. Maybe the problem I've had today is a Ning server problem, and I'm just jumping to conclusions about the Chines government re-blocking the Ning server. Let me ping the FOTMD ning to see what IP address they are using.
Microsoft(R) Windows DOS
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1990-2001.
C:\DOCUME~1\RANDY>ping mountaindulcimer.ning.com
Pinging mountaindulcimer.ning.com [8.6.19.68] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 8.6.19.68: bytes=32 time=223ms TTL=239
Reply from 8.6.19.68: bytes=32 time=223ms TTL=239
Reply from 8.6.19.68: bytes=32 time=225ms TTL=239
Reply from 8.6.19.68: bytes=32 time=223ms TTL=239
Ping statistics for 8.6.19.68:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 223ms, Maximum = 225ms, Average = 223ms
C:\DOCUME~1\RANDY>
Yes, IP address 8.6.19.68 was the offending IP address, and it's still accessible from China, so it must be some other problem. Hope the Ning support folks are on it.
-Rand.
I haven't been active in this group since China decided to block a Ning server which caused access to many web sites, including CBN to be blocked in China. How can we have cultural exchanges if China (the Government) blocks the means? Well, after firing off a bunch of messages through various channels, 3 weeks after I was locked out, I found the Ning folks had changed CBN to another IP address, getting around the blockage. So, I have been happily using CBN again. But, then, just last week, I found all the other Ning sites I visited before were un-blocked. But today, they appear blocked again. Come on China... Give me a break. Free Youtube, while you at it, China.
--Rand (from Shenzhen, China)
Elsewhere on the Internet, I found out that the two formal names for the pentatonic scale formed by the five black keys (accidental notes) on the piano are:
1.) F# Major Pentatonic Scale
2.) Gb Major Pentatonic Scale
And of course F# and Gb are enharmonic names for the same note, and hence the same scale.
Maybe my D Major Pentatonic could have worked better if I had tuned it to F# or Gb. Well, too late now. Maybe next time.
-Rand.
Hi Edgel R. Gillespie II.
Welcome to the group. I enjoy noodling around with pentatonic scaled 2- and 3-stringers. My favorite pentatonic scale so far are the five accidental notes on the Western 12TET scale (the black keys on a piano). I had a Major Pentatonic Scale fretboard, but it sounds too much like the diatonic scale, being the same except skipping a couple notes per octave. I have since added a few frets to that instrument to make if diatonic, which is my favorite scale for playing traditional and folk melodies on. I wish I had a collection of songs for the 5-black key pentatonic scale I mentioned above. I bet I could find some if I spent some more time researching on the Internet.
-Rand.
I have always been drawn to the eastern cultural music since I was a young kid. I had nieghbors who were from the orient and they all played one string or another. Nothing like the simplicity of their music to calm the soul.
very good idea here....it is worth the study. Maximo
Okay, I have a bit more info as to why access to the Ning server was blocked in China. Apparently, the server had hosted some pornographic web sites, so the Chinese authorities blocked its IP address (8.6.19.68) and in the process, blocked access to a lot of legitimate webs sites like "Cigar Box Nation" (CBN) and "Handmade Music Clubhouse" (HMC), and then they went on vacation. The Ning tech support folks have apparently been moving web sites from the blocked server to another one, seemingly on a per request basis. While my access to CBN was blocked, when I pinged the CBN URL, I'd get 4 time out messages and the reported IP address was 8.6.19.68. Now I have access to CBN and the IP address I'm getting from pinging the CBN URL is 8.6.19.69. However, I still can't access HMC, and when I ping them, I still get the blocked IP address (8.6.19.68). Someone should contact the administrator at HMC and inform them of this situation. If they want people to be able to access their Ning-based web site, then they'll have to contact the Ning tech support folks and hve them change the server the site is hosted on (or change the IP address of the blocked server). You can forward them my message, too.
-Rand.
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