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Up close: Rindik piano is Balinese piano-like music instrument with three levels of a bamboo-plate xylophone ...
The most noticeable instrument in the ensemble is the T’rung, the Vietnamese xylophone made with hollow bamboo sections from the Central Highlands. The artists also play the bamboo flute and Dingpa, ...
The ensemble is conducted by a drummer, and often includes voice, bamboo flute, xylophone, and stringed instruments. The most well-known gamelan ensembles are those from the islands of Java and Bali.
As an instrumentalist, Võ boasts a virtuosic command of three traditional instruments: the dàn t’rung, a bamboo xylophone strung vertically like a dinosaur’s spinal column; the zither-like ...
Vo Van Anh, whose stage name in the US is Vanessa Vo, is a California-based Vietnamese musician. She can play the dan tranh (16-chord zither), dan tam thap luc (36-chord zither), dan bau (monochord) ...
He shows a bamboo xylophone he made during seven years, inspired by those used by ethnic groups in the Central Highlands. “The T’rung instrument used to be popular only in the Central Highlands area,” ...
But bamboo is fast-growing grass, which can be used as replacement for wood in musical instruments.” Bamboo Melody has tabla, sitar, dholak, flute, violin and xylophone made from bamboo.
His trembling hands work with bamboo wood and turn it into Thai xylophone and gong wong mallets. Despite difficulties as a result of a stroke he suffered years ago, Chalor Jaichuen, one of the ...