Hi Edward! Hope you are doing well. It’s a lot dearer cos of the wood and snakeskin involved. The sound is out of this world. Apologies about the YKM Indian small leaf demo. I’ll try to get one up asap. Thanks!

Their website stuff has an entire online course as well as them selling lessons and stuff, bought an erhu from eason music myself and they're pretty solid honestly. im falling behind on mine because i play multiple instruments but i highly recommend em'

@@PippyM_ Thanks, I appreciate that.

Thank you!

That's a very intelligent review, for a novice like me how can you tell?

@edwardsiu4266 I think the best way to tell the difference is to start listening to ehru music both professional and amateur recordings especially songs that have erhu solos. My favorite artists are Yu Hong Mae (classicly trained in China) and Eliott Tordo (self taught). At first just listen then after a while try to start listening for the low, mid, and high registers. Each register has smooth/mellow tones and a more "buzzy" maybe "tinny" tones that occur in the harmonics. Each erhu, depending on the materials it's made of and how the player sets up the erhu (placement of the felt damper, type of bridge and where it's placed, how they tune the strings, and how they condition the snake skin, the quality of the snake skin also lays a big role in the sound produced) all go into how an instrument will sound. I've been listening to erhu music for about 12+ years. It just takes practice to train yourself to pick out the different sound qualities an erhu produces. I think this goes for just about any instruments. Hope this helps! :)

@ Thanks for the reply. Do you play the erhu? I've already have a Ming Qing Hu Han Ru erhu from Eason, bought 10 years ago when the prices were more favourable. I have this itch that I want to get an Indian sandalwood one. My teacher won't say yes or no. I don't want another Ming Qing erhu. What are your thoughts?

@edwardsiu4266 About 15 years ago I bought a concert grade Ming Qing aged rosewood Suzhou erhu by Wan Qi Xing. I've started and stopped a few times over the years trying to play. There's no one within a 2 to 3 hour drive that could offer erhu lessons so I'm limited to the online instructional videos that Eason Music has on their website. You're right in that the prices of erhus have doubled or tripled over the years and I couldn't afford a concert grade erhu now. Unfortunately, my erhu playing isn't very smooth. I need a lot of bowing practice! I just try to play by ear to get reasonably close to what I think sounds nice. After I retire I plan to spend more time practicing playing my erhu but for the time being it's a few hours a month.

@@edwardsiu4266 I've heard good things about erhus made from Indian sandalwood. Small leaf indian sandalwood is supposed to be absolutely fantastic for making an erhu, but the $5000 to $8000 price tag is a considerable expense. Before buying an indian sandalwood erhu I would do two things: 1) ask your erhu teacher if they think that your playing ability is great enough that the quality of your erhu is not sufficient to allow you to achieve better skills and 2) ask yourself the same question. If both you and your teacher both say yes then I would think that moving up to a higher quality instrument is definitely worth the money. But, if your playing skill has not surpassed the capabilities of your current erhu then I would save your money until your playing skills warrant an upgrade.

that wall is like $20k lol one earthquake and I would start crying