十七簧铜斗笙

今天岁末大扫除，在久未清理一片凌乱的储物室里居然挖出了一把1970年代的17簧铜斗笙。

仔细回想，那是十多年前百胜楼嘉兴企业乐器行结业倾销时连同一把板胡、几管洞箫笛子等等一并买下的。

时光荏苒，不觉已经有几十年没再碰这件乐器了，买主要还是怀旧。记得1970年代前后加入国家剧场华乐团时吹的就是这种笙，如今重见，仿佛时光又回到少年时。

8.2.2026

Today, during the year-end cleaning, I unexpectedly unearthed a 17-reed copper sheng (mouth organ) from the 1970s in a cluttered storage room that hadn't been tidied for ages.

I bought it over a decade ago when the musical instrument shop at Karl Heng Enterprise in Bras Basah Complex (Bai Sheng Lou) was having a closing-down sale. It came together with a banhu (fiddle), several dongxiao (vertical bamboo flutes), and dizi (transverse bamboo flutes), among other items.

Time flies, and it has been decades since I last touched this instrument. The main reason for buying it was nostalgia. I remember playing this exact type of sheng when I joined the National Theatre Chinese Orchestra around the 1970s. Seeing it again now feels as though time has returned to my youth.

8.2.2026