2021-12
備料-選料
“木直中繩，輮以為輪，其曲中規…-《勸學篇》”。雖料無完料，但仍可在樹木成材後進行適宜的裁切從而取得最佳的使用範圍，尤其側重於避開蟲眼、結節、裂縫等。在木材切割後儘量取其軸心對稱，為跟著下來的琴體構圖以及內部結構佈局提供最佳的設計範圍。
通常在木料篩選及裁切期間會適當使用小木槌進行敲擊，藉鑒其敲擊聲對各部位以及深層進行快速診斷，藉此避免其取材有暗裂存在。並同時在多塊組合中交叉篩選出彼此匹配的音板選材。
敲擊板材的做法，主要以聽力以及經驗性判斷作為依據，例如其敲擊木材所發出的輕重浮沉之大致音色。雖然這種經驗性的感知和感情一樣難以用量作爲衡量，但至少可在多選情況下篩選出最適配的板材，而至於其他的板材則作為後備以及長久老化貯存。
Woods prepare-selection
“Wood can be trimmed to straighten with reference by the straighten rope, or curl to wheel shape by thermal treatment, to fit by circular arc criterion…" – Ancient Chinese Prose “Encouragement to Learn". Although the wood are not perfect, it can usually be cut ingeniously obtain the best range of use, especially emphasized to avoiding insect holes, nodules, cracks, etc. After the wood cutting, try to take its axial symmetry as much as possible, so as to provide the best range of the plane composition and the layout of the internal structure designing for Guqin.
Usually, a small wooden mallet is used for tap-scanning, during the woods matching and cutting, and the tapping-sound is used for rapid diagnose various sections and deep layers, so as to avoid the potential cracks in the cutting materials. And at the same time, Cross-comparison of soundboards that match each other in the multi combination.
The method of the board tapping is mainly based on hearing and empirical judgments, such as the general tone of the light and heavy or ups and downs produced by tapping. Although this kind of experiential perception as difficult to measure as emotion, at least the most suitable board can be quickly screened out under multiple selections, then other boards are stored as backup and long-term aging.
2022-04-06/08-26
平面構圖與琴型切割
成就一張琴之“氣度”，其構圖裁切是成琴之奠基。所謂“氣度”，直觀可見為“度”，若恍惚感知為“氣”。
其“度”有比例，尺寸比例有度方為成器。所謂適宜尺度並非有明確之量，就如各朝代“尺寸”皆在如今的3公分左右徘徊，又如琴體器型最佳尺度則是以使用最佳手感作為設計依據，也為魯班尺以人為本之精妙所在。
其“氣”可感知為氣勢，其意在恍惚意會且難以言述的印象，彷彿相同之物料後經不同造就而成不同器具，再置於不同境地、時間、光影、情景等因素，所被賦予與觀感者感知到的一種“道不清 說不明”之感覺。
最終內外圓融之琴，外在乎構圖尺度適宜以及體裁成氣勢，內在則為音聲協調且寬鬆遼闊。
Yushu Jiaoye Qin’s graphic designing and board Cutting
It highlights the “temperament" of Guqin, and its design and cutting are the first keys to Qin shaping. The so-called “temperament" can be seen as “Coordination and Impact" intuitively, and it can be perceived as oriental culture’s “Qi" in trance .
Its “Coordination and Impact degree" has a amount of proportion, and the size ratio to be shape up in a right degree. But this suitable scale does not have a clear quantity, just like the “unit of inch" of every Dynasty in the East hovers each around 3 cm till today, and the best scale of the Qin is based on the best play feeling as the design basis, which is also the subtlety of Luban ruler’s (woodworking ruler) people-oriented in oriental ancient.
Its “Qi" can be perceived as breadth of spirit, its means vague and difficult to describe, as if the same material can made into different utensils in different ways, and then placed in different occasions, time, light and shadow, scenes and other factors, it is endowed a feeling of “unexplainable and confuceived by viewers.
At the end, the inner and outer harmony of Guqin, the scale coordination and the imposing in spirit external , and sounds harmonious and wide internal.
｛紫雲古琴斵製技藝坊｝The Guqinuthiery & Workshop. Since 2014. 