I was at a friend's 40th birthday party at this old Finnish farm house and they had Barbora Xu performing for him. It was amazing! She was singing and playing guzheng and gujin, accompanied by kantele. Lyrics from Finnish old lyrical poetry collection, Kanteletar, arranged by her. She has a very vibrant and strong voice which did not suffer at all from the performance space.
http://www.barboraxu.com/
They also had an improvised piece with guzheng and kantele, and at the end an impromptu piece of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. The man of they day, a huge Pink Floyd fan, has played a little keyboard and he tried guzheng and tried to play some melodies from that song, but the notes do not apparently correspond to normal scales, the strings are like black keys on the keyboard or something like that so it proved a little difficult. She knew the song a little, so they tried to sing it together and she tried to arrange it for guzheng on the go. It worked surprisingly well for a one-time sing-off.
Olin Ennen Otramaana, with guzheng (there accompanied by kantele):
http://www.barboraxu.com/
They also had an improvised piece with guzheng and kantele, and at the end an impromptu piece of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. The man of they day, a huge Pink Floyd fan, has played a little keyboard and he tried guzheng and tried to play some melodies from that song, but the notes do not apparently correspond to normal scales, the strings are like black keys on the keyboard or something like that so it proved a little difficult. She knew the song a little, so they tried to sing it together and she tried to arrange it for guzheng on the go. It worked surprisingly well for a one-time sing-off.
Olin Ennen Otramaana, with guzheng (there accompanied by kantele):
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