Single notes of the erhu, the two-string Chinese fiddle, from real recordings: the nasal, voice-like tone and the player's own vibrato. Each variation is moved to a nearby note of the pentatonic scale, and some slide into or out of the note. Every press of New in the editor brews a different erhu; these 12 are a fixed selection so the links stay the same.

Good for

Sad or emotional story beats
Character themes and introductions
Game over or defeat screens
Dialogue with an Eastern setting

Tweaking tip

Generate a few and play them one after another for a short, sad phrase. Open any variant with Edit to change it with sliders.

License

Free for commercial and non-commercial use. No attribution, no sign-up. Most sounds are synthesized from scratch; the few that use recordings use CC0 (public domain) recordings, so there are no third-party rights attached.

Generate them from code or an AI agent

The same sounds are available from the command line:

npx sfxbrew erhu --count 5 --out assets/sfx/erhu.wav

Or let Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client add them to your project, then ask for "erhu sounds":

claude mcp add sfxbrew -- npx -y sfxbrew mcp

Free agent skill that teaches your agent when and how to use it: Agensi · GitHub