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2021-11-08

Jiaoye Qin cloth wraping

Guqin’s cloth-wrapping connects the woodwork and the lacquerwork. It is a milestone in the whole process of the Guqin crafting, and as the final version of the Guqin shape and temperament. The process of the Guqin wrapping (cloth layer) also affects the accuracy of every details by the following future, and the subsequent work will be dominated by the alternating cycle of lacquerwork and sanding-polishing.

The Guqin’s cloth-wrapping stage can be advanced or postponed according to the Guqin woodwork and tuning, and the three structural surface of the soundboard, bottomboard, and “Bianqiang”(side wall) can also be staggered and proceed independently according to experience or advantages balancing. There are three main operating schemes: 1. The whole body wrapped with cloth at the same time. 2. The soundboard(face up surface) is wrapped first, then the bottomboard 3. Only the string path is wrapped. Although the first two methods are similar, they also have their own advantages in tuning, operation, details, and accuracy.

Among them, the Jiaoye Qin is second only to the “LuoXiang Qin” in the operation difficulty of the cloth wrapping work. Due to the inherently complex poly-curved shape of Jiaoye Qin (Banana Leaf shape), the difficulty of wrapping will be greatly increased. Before the wrapping, it is necessary to plan the boundary line of Guqin and use it as the seam of the cloth edges. Reasonably stagger the wrapping time of the soundboard and the bottomboard, which can greatly reduce the potential flaws caused by blind areas, shrinkage, collision, friction and other reasons.