Middle East
Present-day Iran.
What is Persia?
The name for the Vietnamese New Year Celebration.
What is Tet?
A gong orchestra.
What is a Gamelan?
The nickname for the country Laos is "The Land of a Million these."
What are elephants?
Geography determines this.
What is culture?
Who is Haji Firuz?
Vietnamese spike fiddle.
What is Don Co?
Many gamelans were melted down to make weapons during this war.
What is World War II?
A U-curved wooden xylophone played with mallets.
What is a lanadh?
The lyre was an instrument used in this ancient society.
What is Ancient Greece?
The Muslim name for the Bible.
Vietnamese zither.
What is Don Trahn?
The time period, named after a type of metal, during which most Gamelans were created.
What is The Bronze Age?
Instrument with a double row of bamboo pipes stringed together and played with a mouthpiece.
What is a kaen?
The instrument classification of the Sah (Laos).
What is chordophone?
An ancient cordophone that was in the shape of a trapezoid.
What is the santur?
Wooden side blown flute.
What is Sao?
Gamelan orchestras typically accompanied this type of play.
What is shadow puppet play?
This many musicians play in a Laotian Festival orchestra.
What is eight to ten?
The Biwa, Koto, Shamisen, and Shakuhachi are instruments from this country.
What is Japan?
A small lute played in the ancient Middle East. (Predecessor of the guitar)
What is the oud?
Like the Chinese New Year, the timing of the Vietnamese New Year is based on this natural phenomenon.
What are lunar cycles?
The three sections of a gamelan.
What are melody, drums, and filling-in (or accompaniment)?
The name of the language used by Bhuddist Monks at the Laotian New Years Festival.
What is Pali?
The four instrument classifications.
What are chordophone, aerophone, membranophone and idiophone?