Frenchman Eliott Tordo’s life was completely changed by learning a Chinese instrument – the erhu. He essentially taught himself, over eight years – and has now become a YouTube influencer and one of Europe’s most renowned erhu players. @EliottTordo_Erhu
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00:00 I remember I told to myself the first time I will visit China will be to go to tour the country.
00:07 It was this crazy idea I had, so it finally happened and yeah, it was my very first time discovering the country.
00:13 And the tour was very, very exhausting physically, very hard.
00:20 It was a big challenge also to be prepared on my skill to play, to be able to play at that level.
00:26 But it was a tremendously great experience.
00:31 So it was the first time in my life that I met a true Chinese master of the haru.
00:38 And it was, I think he played in front of me for like maybe five or six minutes.
00:45 I learned more in these five or six minutes than I learned for the past six years.
00:50 It was mind-blowing, just seeing how he played, all these little things he does, the level of strength, the level of intensity he had.
01:01 It was something else.
01:03 For me, obviously, I feel a deep connection with Chinese arts and Chinese mind, Chinese way of thinking.
01:12 A lot of things just resonate with me.
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