Photo a day for 2010

By kusasi

Angklung

Looking for something to photograph today, I came across my favourite souvenir. This is an Angklung, a musical instrument which has come with me all the way from Borneo, via my houses in London and Oxfordshire. It has an element of the wind chimes and the xylophone about it, and forms a scale of eight notes, but other than that it's quite unique and difficult to describe ...

But also today, I found out herethat the Angklung is to become a UNESCO World Heritage item. I'm rather pleased about that as I think it's pretty safe to assume I don't own any other UNESCO World Heritage items ...

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