Monday, December 01, 2008

Sean Nós, Vietnamese Style


These 3 lovely ladies "entertained" us with some beautiful high pitched shrieking! The Vietnamese language seemed quite high pitched at the best of times, but these lasses took it to new levels. It was no surprise no notice the absence of dogs in the vicinity (unlike every other site we had been to)!

They were accompanied by several uni- or bi-stringed instruments tuned to unbelievable frequencies! Even the guitar had only 2 highly tensed strings on it. There was also a banjo like device, an instrument that looked like a cross between a hash pipe and a thing Ray Mears would use to light a fire (guy in white shirt) and a shoe box with a diagonal string and flexible pluck (guy on extreme right).

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