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The instrument has twenty-three 800 mm (31 in)-long wire strings attached to a bamboo tube with a metal hose-clamp around the top rim. A 4 litres (0.88 imp gal; 1.1 US gal), rectangular olive oil tin, which acts as a resonator, is clamped to the base of the tube. The instrument is capable of playing both Vietnamese and Western music.
The đàn bầu (Vietnamese: [ɗàːn.ɓə̀w]; "gourd zither"; Chữ Nôm: 彈匏), also called độc huyền cầm (獨絃琴, "one-string zither"; the name is only used by the Jing ethnicity in China) is a Vietnamese stringed instrument, in the form of a monochord (one-string) zither.
Jiming Bao is a Chinese physicist. Bao studied physics at Zhejiang University, where he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. He then completed a doctorate in applied physics at the University of Michigan. Bao teaches at the University of Houston. In 2018, Bao was elected a fellow of the Optical Society of America. [1]
In areas in Greater Houston along the Gulf Coast some white residents had animosity towards Vietnamese fishermen. Around the late 1970s in Seabrook, Texas, a Ku Klux Klan group held an anti-Vietnamese rally, and in an incident two Vietnamese fishing boats were burned. [5] The second wave consisted of "boat people" who came from 1978 to 1982 ...
The kèn bầu (Vietnamese: [kɛ̂n ɓə̂w]) is one of several types of kèn, a double reed wind instrument used in the traditional music of Vietnam. [1] It is similar in construction and sound to the Chinese suona and the Korean taepyeongso. It comes in various sizes and is a primary instrument of the former royal court music of Huế.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
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A catalog documenting the Collection's holdings was published in 1918 [5] by Albert A. Stanley, with a second edition published in 1921. [6] In 1988, Professor James M. Borders published a catalog featuring the Collection's European and American wind and percussion instruments. [7]