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Through the long development of the history, the community of Phu Yen ethnic minorities have created a variety of musical instruments, especially the Phu Yen mountainous ethnic minorities have had considerable contributions to the treasure of Phu Yen music with their original musical instruments like the flute named “Dinh Buoc cho’k” with interesting melody but it is as sad and tragic as crying, the musical instrument of “Goong” vibrating sounds as jubliant and animated as the chorus of the Arap group of goongs, the musical instrument of “Pi Tat” with its gentle tones like the lullaby of the wind, the K’ny and T’rung musical instruments are as harmonious as sounds of streams together with the melodies of goongs, double drums, large drums animated and urgent in the festivals of Phu Yen mountainous ethnic minorities: “Trum Goong” consisting of three big goongs (large, medium and small) all have a nipple in the centre, played in harmony with double drums in buffalo-piercing festivals, grave-leaving ceremonies. “Mu hum goong” consisting of a large drum, a nippled goong and six non – nippled goongs, all combined together into a frame of goongs used in new-rice festivals, health-congratulating festivals, buffalo-piercing ceremonies, Heaven worshippings. The set of Arab goongs consisting of three large goongs, four small goongs, one large drum, one symbal, one small bell and seven small goongs played together in the grave-leaving ceremonies of Ede, Ba na, and Cham H’roi ethnic minorities.
Coming to Phu Yen, beside enjoying the beautiful natural beautyspots, joining the solemn fish-praying ceremonies of the inhabitants in the coastal areas or goong-animated festivals of the mountainous ethnic minorities, tourists also have opportunities to hear the sounds of stone musical instruments, stone bugles melodiously echoing the sounds of the ancient people. |
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 Tuy An Stone Musical Instrument |
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 Discovered at Nui Mot mountain belonging to Trung Luong hamlet, An Nghiep commune, Tuy An district. In 1990 the first stone bar was discovered, it produced sounds when being knocked and over a year later the eighth stone bar was found. They are not “sounding stones” but a set of stone musical instruments evaluated to be the most perfect in all sets of stone musical instruments discovered in Viet Nam, including the set of stone musical instruments preserved in the Paris museum (France).
According to the results of scientific researches, the set of Tuy An stone musical instruments is the ancient product of a human community who used to live in Viet Nam, dated around the first half of millenium 1 B.C, having the tune pitch near the ethnic tune pitches in the areas of South Asia, South-East Asia, and is capable of performing some folk songs, folk music of some people who once lived in Viet Nam. This is the cultural heritage of historic value of the Vietnamese ethnic community in general and the Central Viet Nam as well as Phu Yen province in particular. |
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Stone Bugles (The two stone antiques producing sounds when being blowed) |
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Discovered beneath a Champa ruin in Phu Can hamlet, An Tho commune, Tuy An district and have been kept and used through the seven generations of headmonks in Hau Son pagoda, estimated about more than 150 years ago.
According to scientific researchers: These two stone antiques were created by man (probably by the Cham’s ancestors) from the Bazan stones available in the local area. These two antiques dated back before the 7th century. This pair of stone bugles is capable of being played in harmony with not only Tuy An stone musical instruments, but with other modern musical instruments as well. The discovery of this pair of stone bugles is of great significance in many ways, in which there is the contribution to tourism and sightseeing, scientific researches, studying the nation’s culture and history . . . Tourists to Phu Yen Museum will have opportunities to enjoy the wonderful melodies of the stone musical instruments and the stone bugles. |
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