The accompaniment instruments in "Forest Rhapsody" include ocarina (lead), drums, and violin.

1. Ocarina

Also translated as Ocarina flute, foreign xun, tile xun, soil flute, drum flute, etc.), most of the more popular ocarinas in the world are currently It is a wind instrument originating from Italy that looks like a submarine, has a whistle, and is usually made of clay.

Chinese Ocarina (Utility Model) Whistle Type Air-Minging Folk Music, Ocarina player and maker Zhou Zilei drew on the basic characteristics of Chinese and foreign clay musical instruments in previous dynasties to reform and develop, with scientific and convenient fingering sequences and a wide range of sounds. A wind instrument usually made of clay.

2. Drum

A percussion instrument in which one or both sides of a solid, generally barrel-shaped drum body is covered with a tight membrane. Drums can be struck with hands or a pestle. Drums are an important instrument in traditional African music as well as in modern music. Some bands are entirely composed of drum-based percussion instruments. In addition to being musical instruments, drums were used in many ancient civilizations to spread messages.

3. The violin

There are totally four strings. The sound is produced by the friction between the string and the bow. The violin body (singing box) is about 35.5 cm long and is made of curved panels, back panels and side panels. The top is usually made of spruce, which has a softer texture; the back and side panels are made of maple or mahogany, which has a harder texture. The headstock and neck are made of solid maple, and the fingerboard is made of ebony.

Extended information

Wildness explorer Xu Renxiu, nature recording expert Liu Yihua, nature observer Yang Yatang, American-based producer Wu Jindai, Golden Melody Award producer and Performance Music Award winner Fan Zongpei, are dedicated to Taiwan’s forests Tailor-made natural music creation.

The production process took 5 years, with field recordings in the mountains and forests of Taiwan, and a comprehensive collection of more than 100 species of Taiwanese birds, frogs, cicadas, insects, mountain sheep, macaques, flying squirrels, streams, etc. Taiwanese natural sounds. It is included in the album of the same name, "Forest Rhapsody", which was released by Feng Chao Records in 1999. The album contains 41 songs.