Scope and Contents

The objects in this series include musical instruments used by CMTA's orchestra. They include erxians, or two-stringed plucked instruments; sanxians, or three-stringed plucked instruments; drums; cymbals; gongs; various flutes; double-reed shawns, or wind instruments; xylophones; and other large stringed instruments. Many of the bows for the stringed instruments are missing hair/string.

Scope and Contents The collection contains 250 hand written opera manuscripts, Books and articles written by Chiu, Hung Fook and other authors on Cantonese opera history, theory, performance, and instrument. Photographs of Chiu, Mui Yuen Kung and Chiu, Hung Fook on stages, at training classes, at their opera business, and in their daily life, in group pictures with other Hong Kong opera singers, as well as the materials of the Art and Performance Center and the Arts Training Centre, including business...

Scope and Contents This collection consists mostly of 78 rpm record albums (102 total) and audio tape reels of Chinese and Japanese music, mostly instrumental. The audio tape reels are duplicates of the record albums. Most of the albums are undated, but the few that do have dates are from the 1950s-1960s. The records include classical, opera, and folk music. In addition, there are a few paper documents and journals, such as a journal in English with an article about ancient Chinese instruments, from 1926; a...