Wu Wei (sheng) Artist Portrait with Michael Fuller (double bass) 

The improv was amazing , i was floored

Very interesting! I love the videos covering “non-western” instruments!!

That was so fun! I loved the duality of the instruments during the improv. The Shang sounds so cool, like an organ.

the number of pipes is always a prime number it seems

The most beautiful version of "Follia". The Sheng is so cool and the Bass... well, I ❤ the Bass 🎻 ( and I ❤ his excellent musician: Mr Michael Fuller).

I love these fusions! Please do another one!

What a lovely sounding instrument

Very very humble and passionate guy, really cool video

Fantastic! Bravo both musicians, and great to hear your improvisations.

We have to get in the habit of pronouncing it "shung". It's a Mandarin word. Many Chinese loanwords that come from Mandarin end with "-eng", and none of them are pronounced in a way that rhymes with the English word "hang". In fact, the English "ang" sound is not encountered in Mandarain. There is "ing", approximately rhyming with English "sing", "ang", rhyming with English "long", "eng", rhyming with English "lung", and "ong", rhyming with... I don't think we have a word in English that ends this way. It's a long "O", like in the word "home", ending with an "-ng" sound. The examples I gave are based on a Mandarin spelling convention called Pinyin, which uses Latin (English) letters to express the pronunciation of Mandarin words, with a few different diacritics above the vowels to intuitively indicate the tone. It's a remarkably clear and consistent convention. If you see it written in Pinyin, you know exactly how to pronounce it. If you know how to pronounce it, you know exactly how it's written in pinyin (with some exceptions for tone pairings, but I digress). Sometimes, a word that comes from Mandarin might not be spelled with Pinyin. For example, the surnames "Wang" and "Wong" are actually the same original Chinese surname, rhyming with English "song", and some folks adopted different spelling conventions for the English transliteration. Anyway, here's a robot pronouncing the name of the instrument. The Chinese character has "bamboo" on top, and "life" underneath. "Life" by itself has the same pronunciation. "Sheng". There is really no reason to pronounce the name of the instrument in a way that rhymes with English "sang". I mean, even in English, how often do you see a word ending in "eng"? Rarely enough to not make assumptions.

excellent work gentlemen.

_Oh. My. Goodness. The contrabass & sheng sound SO GOOD together!!_ *I **_so_** ship them.* _

Next week we have an instrument film with Wu Wei coming out. Check out the trailer here! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iJVCZajmEL4.html

For those interested on more sheng and other chinese orchestral music, look up for a channel called welchang

I think the orchestra would sound so much fuller and richer by including some traditional chinese instrumentes such as the dizi, the sheng, guzheng, yangqin and the ehru, it would be really interesting to see how they blend togheter and what textures they can create.

Cool

I wonder, How would you sight read with the sheng right in front of you?

Where can one buy a model like the one Wu Wei has? All the traditional Sheng's I see for sale don't have that many pipes.

Pure and rich doesn’t usually goes together tho