Khanh Son Stone

Location: Dan Stone mountainous Khanh Son Khanh Son District, Khanh Hoa Province.
Characteristics: Since 1979, in Khanh Son has found the forums rock, a musical instrument into the most primitive kind of man (the first of the forums in the world was discovered in 1949 in the Central Highlands - Vietnam South by Mr. G.Condominas, French engineer).
On the anniversary of August Revolution and National Day 09.02.1979, has one of the forums Khanh Son was announced by Mr. Bo Bo Ren, Raglai in Khanh Son dug a cave and hide rows decades. Herds of 12 stones were shaped with large and small, different lengths, creating different sounds. Mr. Bo Bo Ren put 12 stones themselves into two sets, each consisting of 6 bar, the bar A 9kg heaviest, lightest bar 5kg. Ministry heaviest B 28,1kg bar, light bar is 10,5kg. A total weight of the total weight of 50,5kg and B up to 110,8kg. About dating, initially through ethnic studies, geology, archeology, predictions of the forums have been manipulated at least by around 2,000 to 5,000 years. In each bar contains traces worn in a certain place, but a bar with 2 points separated by several centimeters. Interestingly, when typing in each bar at any point for a sound that also own the bar are identical, except for the bar has 2 tracks worn in 2 points sound different heights. Typing echo points in each bar is worn smooth scars to prove who it had manipulated the calculation, consider quite accurate and the process above had used for so long, before he Bo Bo Ren new findings should be worn so high.

The researchers of the music, the instruments have been classified in Khanh Son Stone Musical Instruments "whip", ie self vibrating instruments like gongs, gong, silk-welling herd ... and the end of a music forum syngas multiple "whip" in a fixed scales, very fit scales of the Forum ice Ndut Lieng Krak is stored in Paris, was discovered in 1949 in Dak Lak. With the Forum ice, may be instrumental to the familiar folk songs of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands, which can perform new music composed Highland style, can coordinate traditional harmonies Own Highlands which remains in line with modern requirements.

Here, one can also discover the stones above crafted signs in place, proves the ancient inhabitants of this place - ethnic Raglai - are the real masters of the Forum ice.

Together with the discovery of this board, the researchers after excavations and surveys at peaks Doc Rice, located in Suzhou Village Hap, Hap Trung also find many vestiges of the ancient proved manipulated lithophone here with many rocks and debris of eruptive rocks (ri-cell-lit portland-phia) have more in Khanh Son, as well as rocks to Khanh Son stone manipulated.

After his forums rock Bo Bo Ren, all these years later, many places in the Highlands and at the Khanh Son continues to find many different forums rock.

Khanh Son to visit today, are Raglai ethnic people traditionally hospitable welcome, the fire floor, are drinking wine, heard village elders tell stories and be heard directly least sounds lithophone right where it crafted from thousands of years ago, it was refreshing to tourists have visited this sacred land.