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  • A detailed view of a musician's hand delicately plucking the strings of his double bass. Our attention is on the architecture and parts of the bass: Its f-hole, the fingerboard, strings and bridge. The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, bass violin or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra. The double bass is a standard member of the string section of the symphony orchestra and smaller string ensembles in Western classical music. In addition, it is used in other genres such as jazz, 1950s-style blues and rock and rockabilly, traditional country music, bluegrass, tango and many types of folk music. The double bass is typically constructed from several types of wood, including maple for the back, spruce for the top, and ebony for the fingerboard.
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  • A pile of strings and hooks used for fishing in the river, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. For families living away from the main roads and markets, food caught or collected from the wild, especially edible plants and small animals still make up fifty per cent of their diet.
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  • A roadside stall selling strings of red onions and walnuts in rural Romania
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  • Schoolboys from the City of London School play string instruments during a public performance of classical music. The young orchestra is performing at St. James Garlickhythe, a city of London church redesigned by Sir Christopher Wren after its destruction in 1666. Showing great concentration and passion for their music, the violinists and cellists play with great skill for such young players. We see their copyrighted sheet music attached to the stands, guiding them through the classical pieces listened to by an unseen audience. There is a slight blurring to arms and hands as their bows pass over the bridges of their instruments. <br />
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  • String quartet buskers perform to passers by on Millennium Bridge over the River Thames. A busy thoroughfare between St Paul's and Bankside this is a key spot to catch both tourists and locals alike. The band drew a good crowd and made for a unique busking sound.
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  • String quartet buskers perform to passers by on Millennium Bridge over the River Thames. A busy thoroughfare between St Paul's and Bankside this is a key spot to catch both tourists and locals alike. The band drew a good crowd and made for a unique busking sound.
    20110817string quartet buskersB.jpg
  • String quartet buskers perform to passers by on Millennium Bridge over the River Thames. A busy thoroughfare between St Paul's and Bankside this is a key spot to catch both tourists and locals alike. The band drew a good crowd and made for a unique busking sound.
    20110817string quartet buskersA.jpg
  • Man playing a ukelaly. Samba musicians playing with crowd around them, Pedra do Sal, the birthplace of Samba, in Gamboa district which was the neighbourhood where the ex slaves lived after abolition, sometimes referred to as the first favela. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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  • Art sculpture, part of an artists scupltures walk in the landscape. Mayronnes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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  • Art sculpture, part of an artists scupltures walk in the landscape. Mayronnes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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  • Art sculpture, part of an artists scupltures walk in the landscape. Mayronnes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
    20150609_france sculpture walk_B.jpg
  • Art sculpture, part of an artists scupltures walk in the landscape. Mayronnes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
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  • Art sculpture, part of an artists scupltures walk in the landscape. Mayronnes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
    20150609_france sculpture walk_A.jpg
  • Art sculpture, part of an artists scupltures walk in the landscape. Mayronnes, Languedoc-Roussillon, France.
    20150609_france sculpture walk_C.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerQ.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerM.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerL.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerI.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerB.jpg
  • Clear markings of the grain of this spruce wood. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAD.jpg
  • Man playing a guitar, concentrating. Samba musicians playing with crowd around them, Pedra do Sal, the birthplace of Samba, in Gamboa district which was the neighbourhood where the ex slaves lived after abolition, sometimes referred to as the first favela. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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  • Zhang Lin, 23 at the Xiao Bai Hua Shaoxing Opera Troupe Co’s HQ’s,  plays with one of China’s oldest and noblest musical instruments, the Zheng, similar to Japan's Koto, which she taught herself to play as a young girl.
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  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks, and the front all prepared. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • The front of the violin is weighed. The maker keeps very accurate records of the weight of every piece of every violin he makes. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerY.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerW.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerV.jpg
  • Front being finely planed down. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerU.jpg
  • Templates for various violins, cellos and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
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  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerS.jpg
  • Back of a violin. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerR.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerP.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerO.jpg
  • A Cello having it's varnish dried under UV lights. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerN.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerK.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerJ.jpg
  • Finished volins and violas. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerG.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerF.jpg
  • Tools of the trade. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerE.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerD.jpg
  • Extremely valuable Spruce wood for making violins. Much of this wood now comes from Eastern Europe. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerC.jpg
  • f-holes in the front. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAC.jpg
  • Rod Ward makes accurate measurements. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAB.jpg
  • f-holes in the front. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerAA.jpg
  • Shaping the sides around a mould and blocks. Violins being made at viloin an cello maker, Rod Ward's studio in Guilden Morden, Hertfordshire, UK. This highly skilled craft involves the process of making from raw wood to final instrument. All hand crafted with specialist tools and care for detail.
    20100408violin makerA.jpg
  • Amjad Ali Khan, the renown Indian sarod player and composer playing onstage at the WOMAD festival of World Music on the Canary Islands.
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  • A Thai fisherman on the island of Koh Samui plays his guitar
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  • Amjad Ali Khan, the renown Indian sarod player and composer playing onstage at the WOMAD festival of World Music on the Canary Islands.
    SFE_031101_0028_1.jpg
  • Man playing the violin in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
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  • Busking classical musicians play fort an audience of onlookers at Covent Garden, Central London. The band play opera with a humorous twist in their performance.
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  • Musician and singer Guilherme de Caravalho at home, Sao Tome. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Musician and singer Guilherme de Caravalho at home, Sao Tome. Sao Tome and Principe, are two islands of volcanic origin lying off the coast of Africa. Settled by Portuguese convicts in the late 1400s and a centre for slaving, their independence movement culminated in a peaceful transition to self government from Portugal in 1975.
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  • Amjad Ali Khan, the renown Indian sarod player and composer playing onstage at the WOMAD festival of World Music on the Canary Islands.
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  • Puran Bhatt, a puppeteer, on his roof. Puran is an international star with a master class every year in France. Many foreign puppet students come to stay at his house to be taught by him. Shadipur Depot, New Delhi, India<br />
The Kathiputli Colony in the Shadipur Depot slum is home to hundreds of (originally Rajasthani) performers. The artistes who live here - from magicians, acrobats, musicians, dancers and puppeteers are often international renowed by always return to the Shadipur slum.
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  • Puppeteer at a show at a Delhi Tennis Club. The Shadipur residents main income is from the great and good of middle class Delhi who would never venture near the slum
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  • Puran Bhatt, a puppeteer, on his roof. Puran is an international star with a master class every year in France. Many foreign puppet students come to stay at his house to be taught by him. Shadipur Depot, New Delhi, India<br />
The Kathiputli Colony in the Shadipur Depot slum is home to hundreds of (originally Rajasthani) performers. The artistes who live here - from magicians, acrobats, musicians, dancers and puppeteers are often international renowed by always return to the Shadipur slum.
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  • Musicians with a recorder, guitar and double bass practicing before a concert, Pec, Hungary.Pecs has been chosen as the 2010 European City of Culture. The city is on the southern slopes of the Mecsek Hills and has a sub-Mediterranean climate. Settled by Romans as Sopianae, it was a significant Christian settlement. Later conquered by the Ottomans, it has important Turkish architecture.
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  • Hands playing a Steinway piano with great dexterity.<br />
Steinway & Sons have been making pianos since 1853 in New York City. A second Steinway factory was established in 1880, in Hamburg, Germany. Both Steinway factories have undergone great updates and renovations, and are still making Steinway & Sons pianos today.
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  • Man playing the violin in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • Man playing the violin in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • Man playing the violin in Zizhuyuan Park in Beijing, China. This park is well known as a place where middle aged or elderly Chinese come. This can take all forms including some surprising ones. Purple Bamboo Park (Zi Zhu Yuan Gongyuan) also called Zizhuyuan Park or Black Bamboo Park largest parks in Beijing. It is located in the Haidian District. The park consist of three connecting lakes covering over a total area of 48 hectares. Typical of the classical Chinese garden style, and like many of Beijing's parks and gardens, it is a mountain-water landscaped garden. Constructed around canals and large lakes, the Bamboo Park is known for its liberal use of verdant bamboo groves. The garden has a variety of bamboos on display. Young people also believe that if they go to the park as a couple that their relationship is doomed to fail.
    20120530exercise in zizhuyuan park b...jpg
  • Busking street performer plays for an audience of onlookers at Covent Garden, Central London. The performance is somewhat acrobatic, involving the gathered tourists.
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  • Busking street performer plays for an audience of onlookers at Covent Garden, Central London. The performance is somewhat acrobatic, involving the gathered tourists.
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  • Busking classical musicians play fort an audience of onlookers at Covent Garden, Central London. The band play opera with a humorous twist in their performance.
    _MG_2745.jpg
  • Busking classical musicians play fort an audience of onlookers at Covent Garden, Central London. The band play opera with a humorous twist in their performance.
    _MG_2740.jpg
  • Busking classical musicians play fort an audience of onlookers at Covent Garden, Central London. The band play opera with a humorous twist in their performance.
    _MG_2724.jpg
  • Busking classical musicians play fort an audience of onlookers at Covent Garden, Central London. The band play opera with a humorous twist in their performance.
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  • Doug Stark, farmer, holds strings of onions on his farm in Coulton, Howardian Hills, AONB, North Yorkshire, UK. He sells the vegetable on a wall with an honesty box outside his farmhouse and at local farmers markets.
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  • A string of home-made sausages hanging outside a Tai Lue ethnic minority village house in Ban Saysana, Oudomxay provonce, Lao PDR.
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  • Buddhist monks tie cotton string onto an elephants tusk during the Baci ceremony at the Sayaboury elephant festival, Sayaboury province, Lao PDR. The baci is a long series of chanted blessings and exhortations to welcome back any ‘kwans’ or body spirits that might have been lost. In traditional Lao culture it is believed that elephants, like humans, have 32 kwan (or souls), vital for health and spiritual wellbeing. Originally created by ElefantAsia in 2007, the 3-day elephant festival takes place in February in the province of Sayaboury with over 80,000 local and international people coming together to experience the grand procession of decorated elephants. It is now organised by the provincial government of Sayaboury.The Elephant Festival is designed to draw the public's attention to the condition of the endangered elephant, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the ancestral tradition of elephant domestication and the way of life chosen by the mahout.
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  • A Romanian peasant farmer wearing a traditional striped apron (zadie), made of a single width of woven wool, holds a string of organically grown beans, Botiza, Maramures, Romania. 90% of vegetable production is grown in small household plots and mainly used for self-consumption and for sale on local markets.
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  • A string of rock-hard locally produced 'chhugho' dried yak cheese for sale at a roadside stall in Western Bhutan.
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  • A Romanian man sits outside his wooden home with a string of beans hanging above his head, Botiza, Maramures, Romania
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  • 2 young women make plastic string in the city of Bhavnagar, Gujarati State. The Shaishav Trust is trying to provide education and support for children in child labour.
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  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
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  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
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  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
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  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
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  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
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  • Blind man busking playing a traditional Chinese string instrument with a bow to make some money in Shanghai, China.
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  • Blind man busking playing a traditional Chinese string instrument with a bow to make some money in Shanghai, China.
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  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
    _MG_7737_1.jpg
  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
    _MG_7732_1.jpg
  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
    _MG_7726_1.jpg
  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
    _MG_7707_1.jpg
  • Piano maker man stringing a piano. John Broadwood and sons piano makers by Royal appointment, they are the oldest established piano maker in the World. Workshop and piano museum, Finchcocks, Kent, UK.
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  • Details of traditional Uighur instruments in a Kashgar city shop, China
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  • Busker casting his shadow in evening light playing a berimbau. The berimbau, a single-string percussion instrument, a musical bow, from Brazil. The South Bank is a significant arts and entertainment district, and home to an endless list of activities for Londoners, visitors and tourists alike.
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  • Detail of the wide variety of tools used to make traditional Uighur and other Muslim and Central Asian instruments: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek, etc.  in Kashgar city's most respected workshop, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Mu Ze Latso, 22, shares a joke and an intimate moment with her mother Mu Ze Namu, they belong to the Mo Suo minority / tribe from Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room
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  • Detail of the wide variety of tools used to make traditional Uighur and other Muslim and Central Asian instruments: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek, etc.  in Kashgar city's most respected workshop, China
    chimusika_014_1.jpg
  • Details of instrument making: using bone, plastic, sheep’s horns in the music instrument workshop of Kashgar city's most respected maker Ababakri Selay, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 is a Uighur of Turkic origin, he has been making over 40 varieties of  traditional instruments in his workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  his own creation for five generations.  These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to Chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region he inhabits.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an in their institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Ababakri Selay, 80 and son, Muhammad Turson, 40 are Uighurs of Turkic origin, they make  over 40 varieties of instruments in ther workshop: Rawap, Duttar, Tanbur, Huxtar, Gijek and many others, including those of  their own creation. Five generations have been involved in this traditional instrument making. These five generations have lived through Chinese imperial rule, Russian influence, civil war, and back to chinese rule. Amidst all this they have continued to make music and instruments and sold them throughout the Muslim region they inhabit.  They are the principal instrument makers in the city, an institution an institution in their own right and highly respected, Kashgar city, China
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  • Mu Ze Latso with a friend, also from the Mo Suo minority visit a Buddhist temple in Yongning town, north west Yunnan Province, close to Tibetan and Sichuan border.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
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  • Close up of family meal in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
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Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_026_1.jpg
  • Mu Ze Latso with family have lunch together amid posters of Mao  Zedong and  the Dalai Lama in home close to the shores of Lugu Lake, northwest Yunnan province.<br />
<br />
Mo Suo people live along LuGu lake, northwest  Yunnan province. Since the population is not big enough, the Chinese government did not assign them as an independent minority. Mo Suo people belongs to the NaXi minority of LiJiang region. Mo Suo people have their own distinctive culture, religion and customs. Most significantly: Mo Suo people do not have a marriage System. Locally, they call their relationships a "walking marriage". <br />
A girl has her ADULT ceremony when she is 14, then she can start to wear the Mo Su costume and the family will give her a room that is called “Flower room”.<br />
Logically, she is allowed to take her boyfriend, since Mo Su family carries on by the mother's name, the son and the daughter stay with mother their whole lifes.<br />
When they are adults, the girl chooses her boyfriend. The boyfriend come to sleep in her room in the evening and leave for his mother's home in the morning. He belongs to his mother's family. She belongs to her mother's family, her children will be taken care of by her family: her mother, uncle, aunts, or sisters and brothers. Her children do not belongs to the boyfriend's family.<br />
Normally, the mother will pass her "power" to her eldest daughter when she is old and thus perpetuate the Mo Suo traditions.
    chilugu_024-2_1.jpg
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