｛XingHe JiaoYe Qin｝-progress0121

2022-01-21

Granule scraping for Jiaoye Qin

Although the Guqin lacquer-mixture coating is divided into three steps: granular, medium and fine, it also includes derivative work such as smoothing, forming, and patching. As mentioned the previous granule scratching stage, the coating layer almost affects one-third of the Guqin timbre, and provides enough margin for timbre and shape correction in the later stage. This process can be described as neither fast nor slow, neither difficult nor easy.

From the granular surface to be as smooth as the skin, it requires a very long coating addition and subtraction working process. It is similar to flattening the wave using calculus, adding a fixed random quantity at the base level, then average value correction, secondary increment, average value correction, tertiary increment, average value correction, and baseline correction on the reference level, until the ideal value range.

In the complete step of scraping the lacquer-mixture coating of the Jiaoye Qin, the key and difficulty lies in how to take into account the average thickness, retain details, smooth polishing, and especially the slight curved and angular details that are looming on the complex surface.

Based on this series of craftsmanship, luthier needs to master the “reverse vision”, that is, to foresee the perfection of his work and then go through the reverse process of thousands years of decay, and the key point is how to form or restore the “decay” reverse junction at the current stage. Although this philosophy of Causality, Yin Yang theory, and Im-perfectionism is difficult to comprehend, but it will always unwittingly inspired during the long journey of spiritual practice.