Sunday December 12th, our last day with the people of Nankeng for this year !
After six months of work, we ended by a full day of activities.

- Distribution of the Map of the 1000 Steps Old Trail and the CD (wait for the next article on this blog for more information)
- A presentation and discussion about this year’s project
- A concert by the group of musicians of Nankeng playing Beiguan (Wow ! They are playing every week now, they can perform a few times a year, and they play even better than before)
- A good meal of Hakka Food (Gui-Zhu loves cooking !)
- A hike on the 1000 Steps Old Trail, concluded by a fire and walking down in darkness with old-style torches
- Another good meal (we love the food cooked by Gui-Zhu !)
It seems that everyone was quite happy. A huge thank you to the people of Nankeng for this fantastic adventure.
A bit later we’ll build up a simple website for the village. And next year… there will be new ideas !

Books and Articles

Les Guimbardes du Musée de l’Homme by Dournon-Taurelle Geneviève & Wright John, published by Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle - CNRS, 1978.
This book in French contains an essay about this mouth-harp and a catalog of 150 photos of a collection of mouth-harps from the world.

Recordings

Listen online two recordings from Brailoiu collection in Ethnography Museum in Geneva.
Those are digitized version of 78 rpm records published by His Master’s Voice.
AIMP HR559-1/1
AIMP HR564-1/1

Recordings by Wu Rong-Shun, CD published by Wind Records in Taiwan (1994).
The Songs of the Atayal Tribe

A few Videos

Taiwan Indigenous TV : Yutas Hayung (81 years old, Piyanan Community in Yilan County) share his skills for making Lubuw.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mzXwt46_FM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WzvwvULqVQ&

Buy an instrument ?

Danmoi in Germany is selling some. Have a look to the photos.