Traditionally the indigenous Karen people made and used musical instruments such as buffalo horns, gongs, drums, bamboo xylophone, bamboo clapping sticks, and traditional handmade harps and violins for ceremonies such as weddings, funerals, housewarming ceremonies, traditional wrist tying ceremonies, new year and so on. With modernization and new cultural influences these traditional musical instruments and the knowledges of making and playing them have been slowly declining. In this Karen language booklet, readers will learn about these Karen traditional musical instruments, which are played in what ceremonies and other aspects of keeping their use alive.
