Fang Jinlong, born in 1963, is from Anqing City, Anhui Province. China is a famous pipa player and a representative of modern five-string pipa. Fang Jinlong can play nearly 100 kinds of musical instruments at the same time, but pipa is his favorite. Fang Jinlong's pipa performance is unique and draws lessons from many musical instruments. For example, he plays the fishing boat and sings late, and plays the sextet with five fingers, which is to imitate the flower fingers of the guzheng and achieve the so-called "like a piano without a harp".
He also used the overtone thought of Guqin to play a continuous artificial overtone on the pipa, and used Liu Dehai's three-fingered plucking technique for reference to "change the traditional stress habit connection" by turning, brushing, sweeping and plucking.
Personal experience
He has visited many countries in Europe, Asia and Africa for many times, participated in performances of international activities such as Helsinki World Art Festival in Finland, Silk Road Concert in Japan, 63rd Japanese-Chinese Ancient Music Concert of Earth Music, KBC Concert in North Korea, and held pipa solo concerts in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, Hong Kong and Japan. Planning and conducting many national symphony concerts.
According to historical data, he excavated and produced the long-lost five-string pipa and registered the patent, so he was called the master of five-string pipa. He has published dozens of personal CD albums, and papers and monographs such as "Five-string Pipa Playing Method" and "Fang Ruan Fingering Method" have been published at home and abroad.