Lived Experiences of learning to play Silk Strings GuQin 桐木絲弦 (丝桐)古琴 in Singapore: Playing guqin's silk strings on lazy humid Saturday afternoon

Playing guqin at home on humid sunny late afternoon in tropical Singapore. My 4 year old daughter practiced on her own these simple techniques: Mo 抹 (see picture 1 and picture 2), Tiao 挑 (see picture 3), Harmonics 泛音 (see picture 4), and finally Double-handed GunFu 滚拂 (see picture 5 to picture 7) by drawing ABC-Z with both fingers on both hands. Hahaha That was her ABC guqin song, she told me. There's actually probably no Double-handed GunFu in guqin music scores. She made that up, just for pure fun! Haha ^_^ *smile*

I did not 'instruct' her to practice these techniques at all. She told me she was doing them as I very casually took these pictures of her. haha *smile* I have only shown her these techniques once several weeks ago, just for fun.

Guqin is suitable for little children as they are not loud and hence won't disturb the neighbors. I also changed the guqin strings to Tobaya brand silk strings so that the smooth super-slinky silk strings will be easy for her tiny weak fingers to play.

Yeah, the 'henna' she got on her arm on Racial Harmony Day is still there.

picture 1: Mo 抹 (right hand fore finger moved inward, toward the player)

picture 2: Mo 抹 (right hand fore finger moved inward, toward the player)

picture 3: Tiao 挑 (right hand fore finger flicked outward away from the player, with right hand's thumb as support)

picture 4: Harmonics 泛音 (lightly touching on a position of silk string, aligned to any of the 13 white hui markers, while simultaneously striking on silk string with a finger on the right hand)