If any native speakers of Chinese watch this video carefully, could you please help me by summarizing the dialogue in two spots? 1) Starting at 09:08, does Mr. Zhai say that he selected spruce (Chinese: yunshan mu, 云杉木) for his instruments' soundboards, due to its finer grain (and thus clearer and more responsive tone) than paulownia? 2) At 10:50 does Zhai say he had been experimenting with wooden soundboards on huqins for 25 years (since 1985)? I thought he only started developing his Qinhu family of instruments in the year 2000. Or was 1985 when he realized that the spruce soundboards of violins and other Western bowed string instruments might work as a replacement for the python-skin faces of instruments of the erhu family?
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If any native speakers of Chinese watch this video carefully, could you please help me by summarizing the dialogue in two spots?
1) Starting at 09:08, does Mr. Zhai say that he selected spruce (Chinese: yunshan mu, 云杉木) for his instruments' soundboards, due to its finer grain (and thus clearer and more responsive tone) than paulownia?
2) At 10:50 does Zhai say he had been experimenting with wooden soundboards on huqins for 25 years (since 1985)? I thought he only started developing his Qinhu family of instruments in the year 2000. Or was 1985 when he realized that the spruce soundboards of violins and other Western bowed string instruments might work as a replacement for the python-skin faces of instruments of the erhu family?
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