Bulin
Lineage & School of Heritage
In 1959 he worked in the ethnic and folk singing troupe of the Inner Mongolia Radio Station, studying under Sangdu Reng, a first-generation morin khuur player of New China, while also learning the sihu and choor from Sun Liang, the leading master of the sihu; he later studied the harmonic playing technique of the morin khuur under the renowned morin khuur artist Balagong.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, of Mongol ethnicity, born in February 1940 in Horqin Left Middle Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. His theory of three tunings and five playing methods of the horsehair fiddle is now accepted by the academic community. He has also composed a number of morin khuur pieces rooted in tradition, including Bishi Qu (Ballade) and Zai Gebi Gaoyuan Shang (On the Gobi Plateau), and he combines many traditional horsehair-fiddle playing methods in his own practice; adept at innovation on the basis of thorough mastery, he is one of the few morin khuur masters to unite tradition with modernity and practice with theory.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Mongolian Morin Khuur Music, a third-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
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