广东管乐演奏家梁秋，一九○七年八月十五日出生于广东省南海县佛山市一个小商之家，一九八二年五月十九日病逝于广州，享年七十五岁。梁氏少时即好音乐，在父兄的音乐薰陶下，耳濡目染，又于家乡的“八音班”及戏台表演中仿习，自学而成，十四岁开始入大民国、钧天乐、新春秋、孔雀屏等剧团，任“棚面上手”（伴奏乐队之领奏员）。梁氏长于广东喉管（短管），有“喉管秋”，之美称，亦善唢呐与箫，他那支喉管受人气手气滋润了几十年，虽然有些地方己被虫蛀，但音色始终如一，并经得起严寒酷暑的考验。三十年代初，曾为新月唱片公司录制过一批粤乐与粤曲唱片。一九四六年，梁氏随凤凰剧团在小吕宋演出，首次将粤乐的传统吹管乐器向海外介绍。一九五三年作为中国代表团成员之一，参加了在罗马尼亚举行的世界青年联欢节的音乐比赛获得四等奖。一九五九年，广东民间音乐团在莫斯科演出，梁秋以喉管独奏《下渔舟》，小小竹管发出浑厚洪亮的声音，全场观众为之轰动。
LIANG Qiu
Liang Qiu was born on August 15, 1907 in Foshan, Guangdng province and passed away of illness at the age of seventy-five on May 19, 1982 in Guangzhou. Since he was a child, he was fond of music. Influenced by his father, brothers and the native ensembles, he learned the traditional music by himself. At the age of fourteen, he had been the music leader of many famous operatic groups. He was good at playing the Guangdong houguan and was called “Houguan Qiu”. He had a very good instrument which performed by him for a long time. Although there were worm pest in some place, it still had a good quality of sound. He was also good at playing the suona and xiao. At early 1930s, he had recorded many gramophone records in Cantonese music and songs with the New Moon Record Company. In 1946, he firstly introduced his wind instruments to the overseas audiences by going along with the operatic group to perform in Manila. In 1953, he was selected to represent China to participate in the World Youth Festival in Romania and won a prize. In 1959, as a member of the Guangdong Folk Music Group, he performed the solo houguan piece Xia Yuchou in Moscow and was well received by the audiences.