(Cinet)- Musician and researcher Prof Nguyen Vinh Bao has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Certificate of Merit by his contributions to Vietnamese music.
A presentation ceremony was organized in Binh Thanh District, HCM City. Musician and researcher Bao was honoured for his work in researching, preserving, and developing traditional music, particularly tai tu, a traditional southern genre.
He was born in 1918 in a traditional family in Dong Thap Province’s Sa Dec District (now Cao Lanh city).
He wrote his first pieces of tai tu when he was just six. They are for kim or nguyet (two-chord guitar) and nhi (two-chord fiddle), two iconic Vietnamese musical instruments. He played many instruments like the dan bau (monochord) and dan tranh (16-chord zither). He improved the latter, creating zithers with 17, 18 and 19 chords that are more melodious.
He showed off his skill at making guitars and violins at several universities and cultural centers in France.
He wrote or edited many books and documents in three languages -Vietnamese, French and English – on traditional music that also taught how to play music.
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