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 ...

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 ...

At the Royal Opera House in Versailles, the sounds of Vietnam’s lithophone echoed, a musical gift from General Secretary, President To Lam, expressing a deep connection between Vietnam and France. At ...

Initially arranging slabs of stone and clubs eroded by the movement of water to create sounds to prevent wild animals from destroying farms, a man living on the peak of Truong Son chain, which runs ...

A gift of the gods : the story of the invention of the "Odu" gongs and the rediscovery of the ancient lithophone ...