Trân Quang Haï is a versatile man: he is an ethnomusicologist, instrumentalist, teacher, composer, researcher at the National Center for Scientific Research in Vietnam and an expert in making music with spoons (!) And a virtuoso on the mouth harp. The latter prompted him to make a CD with seventeen songs from seventeen different countries on a different mouth harp each time. In the CD booklet he
… explains the history, construction and way of playing the mouth harp and lists the many names the instrument has all over the world: gewgaw, guimbarde, berimbao, Maultrommel, sciacciapensieri, angkuoch, aman khuur etc. etc. For the fanatics. (GO) _more
