Electronic Music Instrument By Strings/"XK" Series Stringed Electronic Instrument by TIAN Jinqin
Channel: dongchannel
Date: 2020-08-16

"XK" Series Stringed Electronic Instrument is a kind of fingerboard instrument invented by Chinese engineer TIAN Jinqin in 1979. This instrument can simulate the sound of a variety of Chinese ethic instruments such as Qudi Flute, Erhu and Guqin. This footage takes from a educational documentary which is probably completed in 1980, when people begin to know electronic instrument. XK series instruments is so remarkable that it is the only innovative e.instruments that chinese ever invented, althought the concept is similar to earlier e.instruments in western countries. The sound this instrument makes is so authentic in a lofi effect, and it's probably the only e.instruments that can reproduce the colorful perform technics of chinese ethic instruments.

This footage also shows another e-keyboard made by chinese factory, which has a similar look to YAMAHA or other e.instruments multi-keyboard.

The female e.keyboard performer (not the person who plays XK instrument), PU Qizhang, is famous in china as she plays the song Yu Zhou Chang Wan by e-keyboards, which becomes the background music of the Weather Forecast program of CCTV since 1990s. It is a common memory shared by Chinese people.

For more information, please refer https://lifesea.org/120years/stringed-electroinstrument-1979/ (in chinese)

弦控式电子乐器，即“弦控式电子琴”，是一种基于指板设计、原理类似于小提琴的电子乐器，1979年由电子工程师田进勤发明。在发明之初，该乐器是基于晶体管技术制成的，在第二代（XK-2）时，开始采用集成电路设计，并增加了音色预贮及自动伴奏功能，还特别设计了可接受指挥的节奏自适应伴奏功能，使得这种电子乐器能融入节奏多变的传统乐队以及乐队节奏，同步使用。

视频中双排键演奏者为浦琪璋，她演奏的中央电视台新闻联播后《天气预报》节目背景音乐。这是一代内地中国人的集体记忆。