Week of July 31, 2010
Global Guru: Playing the Memm
From video/Studio Camobodia Living Arts
Yuy Nang, an ethnic Kroueng from Ratanakiri province, plays the ancient Cambodian instrument known as the memm.
Description
Global Guru Rachel Louise Snyder explores a dying musical instrument known as the "memm" — a cross between a violin and a piccolo that involves a lizard scale inserted strategically between one's teeth — and those who play it.
