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Qin Cases
Modern hard and soft cases |
琴箱、琴套 1
A modern padded case for two qins Left: open; Right: closed |
Artistic representations often show scholars walking along carrying a qin in a silk case; perhaps even more often the qin is being carried by a servant (琴童qin tong). Hard cases have also survived, but as yet I have little historical information on them.
On this page are illustrated several of my own cases.
At right is a modern case with two qins inside. Each qin is wrapped in a silk case of traditional appearance, but padded more than ones I had previously seen. When I purchase qins they usually come with very thin cases of plain silk. The ones I use were tailor made in Hong Kong. They have two layers of silk, plain (perhaps sand-washed) silk inside, perhaps brocade outside. In between there is some thin padding either from silk or very thin foam rubber.
The outside case is also padded. It was made by Betty Vornbrock, a fiddler with the Reed Island Rounders whose company in Virginia, Autumn Wind, does custom sewing, including gig bags for guitar. Her computerized sewing machine allowed her to add the Toadall Sound logo to the bag. Her contact is:
I have not yet tried to carry the double bag onto an airplane. I have been more lucky with the single bag, illustrated below, which she also made.
The hard case below was made in Hong Kong. It is quite sturdy, but it has little padding inside, so when I use it for travel I put the qin in one of the traditional silk cases and fill the rest of the case with clothing. It would be more secure if it were large enough to hold the black padded case, but then there would be a larger chance of having to pay extra for oversize luggage.
Footnotes (Shorthand references are explained on a
separate page)
1.
琴箱 qin xiang; 琴套 qin tao: 21570.xxx. Qin box could also be 琴盒 and qin bag 琴袋 .
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