While carrying out a project to preserve and promote the gong festivals of the M’nong ethnic minority group, Dak Nong province organized a training course to learn how to make musical instruments of the M’Nong ethnic group for 10 ethnic people in Pinao hamlet, Nhan Dao commune, Dak R’Lap district.
They learnt how to build instruments, choose the materials and adjust the sound.
The three-month course will be completed by the end of December.
Vietnamese and foreign researchers on folk culture, ethnologists, historians and archaeologists who came to the Central Highlands to study the folk culture of the M’Nong ethnic people said that the M’Nong ethnic group had a specific gong culture and different musical instruments. However, over the past few years, the influence of modern cultures has had a big effect on the traditional culture of many ethnic minority groups.
According to statistics from the provincial Department of Culture and Information, in 1993, Dak Nong had more than 1,000 sets of M’Nong gongs. In 2001, there were only about 650 and now there are only 360. Furthermore, the musical instruments and traditional gong performances has been lost to oblivion but there are still a few artisans left.
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