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from the issue of July 26, 2007
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'Sight and Sound' exhibit explores Asian musical instrument collection
Asian musical instruments are the focus of the summer exhibition at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture.
| | MUSICAL PRINT - This woodblock print of a Japanese koto is an illustration in the 20 prints from the Chiyoda No Ooku series, dated 1896. The prints and a koto are included in the Lentz Center exhibition. Lentz Center for Asian Culture courtesy photo.
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"Sight and Sound: Asian Musical Instruments from the Collection of Donald and Velma Lentz" is open at the Lentz Center through Sept. 9. In addition to honoring the Lentzes, Barbara Banks, director of the Lentz Center, said the exhibit shows the breadth and variety of Asian instrumentation The exhibit includes stringed instruments, idiophones, drums, woodwinds and horns. A video will accompany the show.
"To conclude our 20th anniversary year we are putting all the musical instruments on exhibition," Banks said. "They have not previously been shown as a group."
Banks said many of the labels reflect Donald Lentz's original notes on the individual instruments, including instruments from Laos, Myanmar (Burma), Sumatro, Bali, India, China and Japan. A Japanese koto from the estate of Alice Abel rounds out the group.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. The Lentz Center is on the lower level of the Hewit Place Building.
For more information, go online to www.unl.edu/lentz.
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