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Sep 05, 2008

A traditional form of Indonesian music is being preserved by a 112-year-old busker, who still makes her living from the Javanese Xylophone.

Hadisono Rukinem walks around the streets of Bantul in Yogyakarta, playing an ancient Javanese xylophone called the gender (pronounce G like "great"). She plays in the hope of preserving a fast-disappearing tradition in an old city where mobile phones chime to the latest pop tunes.

--Reuters

Duration: 1 min 20 sec

 
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