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 ...

We know that the rocks of Stonehenge were carried there from over 200 miles away, but we’ve never known why. Now, researchers say they believe it was for the special sonic qualities of a particular ...

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 ...

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

An ancient lithophone, a collection of two dozen tuned rocks played in similar way to the modern-day xylophone, will be played at a concert in Paris. Prehistorian Odile Romain, alongside ...

A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes, either in combination, producing harmony, or in succession, producing melodies.

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 ...

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 ...