A Chinese and his Sundanese Zither

Tan Deseng is recognized as a skilled Sundanese ethnomusicologist. He set up a workshop with ethnic-Chinese students who love Sundanese culture.

May 27, 2008

Kukupu tilu kulawu Harimumu hideung deui

Three gray-colored butterflies Black memories return

A VERSE of the mamaos, a Sundanese song, echoes softly. The singer is an old man. He has a thin body and is wearing simple gray trousers and a T-shirt. Keeping his hair long to the shoulder makes him look like an artist. He is Tan Deseng, 65, the Sundanese ethnomusicologist and a master of Chinese traditional music.

He has produced many musical and

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