My guqin exploration began in my second year of undergraduate study (2003). Since then I have becaome one of the leading players of the qin in the UK. I must admit that I am a pure amateur when it comes to qin and wouldn’t have it anyway.
My main contribution to the qin world is to write most of the guqin article on Wikipedia as well as its sister articles. I have given up editing since 2006-7 but what you see today has hardly changed from when I left it.
My qin philosophy is elegance and beauty. I like to be quirky yet down-to-earth in my playing but with some eccentricity.
I just got a guqin and am having trouble tuning it. Is there any way to get a cd of the 7 strings played open. Then I would have something to tune to. Are there any tuners for a guqin like there are for guitars? If you have any information I would really appreciate it. Thank you
Since qin tuning is all relative, you can tune to whatever pitch you feel comfortable with as long as all the pitch relationships between the strings are fixed as in sol la do re mi so la. In modern terms, it is defined as CDFGACD (as long as you have the strings and instrument that can tune to said pitches). As to a recording of the scale being played, the guqin article on Wikipedia has it (see the tuning section which would contain a table that lists all the common tuning patterns and there is a recording; it maybe a separate page). For more info, I suggest joining the guqin group on Facebook (the one with the most members) as most of my colleagues are on there to answer queries.