 The People’s Committee of central
Phu Yen province on December 17 presented a lithophone and stone horns found in
Tuy An district to the Vietnam UNESCO Committee for cultural heritage
recognition. Vietnam Visa On Arrival
Speaking at the ceremony, Dr
Katherine Muller Marin, Chief Representative of the UN Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in Vietnam , spoke highly of the unique stone
instruments, especially the harmony of their sounds.
She urged the provincial People’s
Committee to promptly create a dossier of the instruments to submit to UNESCO.
The Tuy An instruments are 2,500
years old. The 8-note lithophone, discovered in 1990, produces the most accurate
sound of ancient lithophones found. The set of stone horns is the only known
example in the world.
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