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You can play the violin so it sounds like a 2-string Chinese Erhu or a 3-string Japanese Kokyū!
A Cello can use the same techniques!
I'm going to cut right to the chase - here's some techniques you need to learn, first!
"Imitating Asian Instruments with Foonyap"
On the Cello!
Erhu and Cello Duet – "A Mongolian Bowl Dance"
What you can strive for on the Violin!
Try this simple melody by ear - "Spinning Song 2"
- Emily
SharonC has a thread titled "Morin Khuur - Mongolian Horse Fiddle", even more appropriate for Cello!
I've been chomping at the bit to dig into some of these other genres! Abundant wealth of beautiful music to explore and I hope eventually we might have similar threads within 1 "East/Southeast Asian Music" Genre.
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Now that I've posted some videos on technique, thought I'd transplant this video from one of my other posts - maybe you'd like to try this song on your Violin, Viola or Cello.
Besides the "Spinning Song 2", I've only played "Jia Ren Qu - Beauty Song" from "House of Flying Daggers". Btw, excellent movie! Bump up the video resolution to max.
I learned this by ear a while back, not difficult - so you all can do it!
Now I just need to revisit it using the previous post's techniques! (lol)
- Emily
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I decided to showcase this performance here by itself because, to me, this is the ultimate! If only I could play my "Mortimer" some day, like this... oh, well - it's a bit of a far stretch for my lifetime.😏
"Maria Kaneko Millar - Sakura for Solo Violin - ABRSM Grade 8"
- Emily
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Just to get you all thinking...
We've all heard of Lindsey Stirling with her dance videos, but for this thread I present a Violin solo/Dance performed and composed by Maria Kaneko Millar - "Tsuru" (The Crane).
I'd be lucky to walk and chew gum at the same time -and I don't think I'll ever be able to get my pizzicato even close!
- Emily
...keep finding myself writing "pizzacato" - Freudian slip? Pizza + Cato (my maiden name) - just seems like they belong together. (lol)
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Great coordination and control by Maria Kaneko Millar. Her uniqueness puts her in a class of her own. 
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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I'm always interested in trying for traditional Eastern instrument sounds on the Fiddle/Viola - but what about the other way around?
Maybe they aren't so different after all.
I had run across this video quite a while back - can't remember if I posted it, so...
A YouTube commenter explained the scene:
To those confused by this clip, it is from a movie "Our Shining Days" on Netflix. The basic premise of it is that in this school the students who study traditional Chinese instruments are looked down at, while those who study western instruments get better treatment. The students who study traditional music form their own orchestra to match the western one, and this scene is both of the groups facing off.
ALSO, in my 1st post I mentioned SharonC's thread, but just saw I never actually linked it, so... click on the link!
Check it out - GREAT STUFF!
Morin-khuur Mongolian Horse Fiddle
...now that I've revisited this thread, I see I have much more work to do on my rendition of "Jia Ren Qu" with my Edgar! (lol)
- Emily
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