Unboxing my guzheng - a giant Chinese instrument

What's your favorite musical instrument?
Guzheng has been my favorite lately ;)
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[@RockStarOscarStern634]

The Guzheng is played w/ Finger Picks that are attached w/ Tape. I do use Standard Guitar Finger Picks so that I wouldn't need tape. The Picks are actually made out of Plastic w/ a Tortoise Shell Finish, they've banned the use of Tortoise Shell as material for Musical Instrument Picks to protect the Turtles.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Yes your 1st Zither. Alice makes good strings for it, & I like using all Rope Core Strings (they're Steel Core strings but w/ a Stranded Steel Core) because they're softer & easier. Also all of the strings might be wound, the wrap wire softens the tone a little bit.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Interestingly the Tuners are located in the Compartment of the Zither which has 2 Hinges.

[@marcusg.793]

Wow the bookshelf

[@David-ku6dm]

Yeaah let's go chang 🔥 don't quit you got this 👏🔥❤️

[@changkao_]

yo yo yo, thank you for always supporting

[@David-ku6dm]

@@changkao_ ❤️👏🙏

[@chiwa1238]

Keep it up ✨

[@karenk8707]

Im in awe again Kao You are a super interesting human being

[@changkao_]

No I’m not 😂😂🤣😂

[@minnyvlog159]

Ra thêm clip đi chị, cứ hóng chị hoài

[@Lin.y06]

I’m want to buy one But I don’t have sure

[@huonggin3174]

It's hugeeeeeeeee

[@ellieho9877]

I started learning cello at the age of 24 without any music knowledge just because I love its sound so much. However, I didnt feel I make progress although I have been learning it for 1 year. Thought of giving up so many times :((. Pls update your progress regularly so that I can have some inspiration

[@changkao_]

Interesting There’s one thing I learnt from my past experience: whatever takes time or seems hardcore for you to achieve by self learning, take a class and stick to the end. I’m a fast learner in quite a lot of things and normally capable of learning things by myself. That made me extremely surprised when it went to musical instruments, I found myself pretty sucked. Since I started the guzheng class, I’m enjoying it really much and seeing the progress quite clearly. I don’t know your situation. But take a class if you don’t feel your skill improved enough. Or if you re already done with your class and want to make it to higher level, set a schedule of 1-2 day practicing a week. I’ll update my progress in 3 months lol. Keep it up together ✨

[@quyhop4271]

❤️🥰

[@phuongthaonguyenthi1694]

I watched Nam Cao's collection of short stories...can you make a video about your book and bookcase?

[@changkao_]

It’s an old book since high school which i even don’t remember i own it honestly and you actually remind me of how bad I was at literature back to high school time haha :)) i was better at the natural subjects :))). But let me think, talking about books could be the interesting topic I might work on (Y)

[@dieunhi4513]

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[@dieunhi4513]

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Please, where did you buy your ghuzeng ? Are you happy with it ?

[@changkao_]

I ordered it from Taobao - a Chinese e-commerce website then booked a separate shipping company to ship to Vietnam my home country. I’m pretty happy with it since at least I could play some songs while I can’t do it with other instruments. The only thing I don’t like about it is about tuning. Since I followed the instruction but the string just sometimes broke and scared me the most. I wish I could always play it without tuning it. That’s it

[@changkao_]

I did make my video of my guzheng progress, please check it out kzbin.info/www/bejne/gYjRdGChiqerZq8

@@changkao_ thank you very much ! I finally ordered mine yesterday from sound of mountain. Because i’m in France, I realised there is big taxes and shipping costs. So i start with a low cost guzheng.

[@changkao_]

@ good luck with your practice. I hope you won’t get much trouble with tuning part like mine 😂

@@changkao_ thank you ! I guess 🤣

[@sitienlieng]

Are you Vietnamese? Your voice and accent sound like Vietnamese

[@Pibbystrawberry_official]

Wish to see more videos about ur CS studies in UoPeople,as I have seen so many times ur videos repeatedly! Can a medical student go to Computer science? I m just curious, can anyone with no IT or CS knowledge, study Bechelor in Cs?

[@changkao_]

Hi Merry, Thank you so much for your sweet comments. I used to be a Business student with none programming experience. But I really enjoy studying CS right now. I believe everybody can. It's just a matter of time and effort. If you manage both of these, I think you could make it. Go for it or at least try if you're interested in.

[@Pibbystrawberry_official]

@@changkao_ Thank you for your response. U r such a Passionate, hard working woman! ❤️💪 Btw right now I'm in usa, Paid my UoPeople application fee through Master card but I didn't get any confirmation from UoPeople, not any email even,, should I b patient, is it takes time to process?

[@changkao_]

@@Pibbystrawberry_official whatt?? the 60$ you mean? Yes, you should've got the payment confirmation right away. When did you pay the fee? I think you problly need to email them regarding this. The new term is coming. I hope you could succeed enrolling our school yay

[@Pibbystrawberry_official]

@@changkao_ Unfortunately I didn't get any confirmation from UoPeople, Yes the Application fee 60d. I emailed UoPeople, waiting for the response.

[@changkao_]

@@Pibbystrawberry_official I hope you get good news soon. Let me posted. Good luck to you!

[@juangabriel_kalimba_guzheng]

What happened to the third string of your guzheng?

[@changkao_]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 It broke when I was tuning it for the first time I’m still an amateur 🤣😂

[@juangabriel_kalimba_guzheng]

@@changkao_ oh no! 😂🤣

[@juangabriel_kalimba_guzheng]

@@changkao_ did you replace the broken one with a new string? 😁

[@changkao_]

@@juangabriel_kalimba_guzheng for the fifth time actually 🤣😂😂🤣

[@juangabriel_kalimba_guzheng]

@@changkao_ oh wait... What?! 🤣