This is the eighth ina series of articles about classical Chinese instruments and the traditional Chinese music orchestra, in which we explore how musicians play the eight different types of ...

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Thousands of years ago, the lithophone emerged as a signature musical instrument of the Central Highlands. Local people call it a stone gong. Thousands of years ago, the lithophone emerged as a ...

Michael Chwe walks into his garden on a bright midsummer morningand dons a smock made out of a black trash bag. He covers his eyes with a translucent plastic mask and places a respirator over his nose ...

Guwahati, June 5: This one sounds interesting: the original “rock music”, dating back 4,000 years. The Regional Science Centre (RSC) at Khanapara — the only one of its kind in the Northeast — has ...

Most musical instruments look a little weird, if you stare at them for long enough. When aliens finally make contact, they’ll be confused by our habit of gripping wood and metal structures and ...

On September 12, the Lam Dong Provincial People's Committee held a ceremony to announce the Prime Minister’s decision to confer national treasure status on the Dak Son lithophone. According to the ...

Roughly ten millennia ago, musicians didn’t lug amps or guitars around to their shows—they lugged lithophones, or instruments made of resonant rocks. The oldest lithophones ever found will be played ...

Although we commonly marvel at the countless achievements of human innovation and hail their inventors as creative geniuses, we’re virtually never privy to the actual creative process behind their ...

This electrically supported lithophone can be found in the depths of the Luray Caverns in Virginia, and its sound will give you chills. In a shadowy, otherworldly cavern in Virginia, United States, ...