A Chinese and his Sundanese Zither
Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Kukupu tilu kulawu Harimumu hideung deuiThree 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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