Do people in foreign countries know much about the zither?

TT: Do people in foreign countries know much about the zither?

TTH: In France, many people studied the zither with Professor Tran Van Khe. Ms. Catherine Despeux studied the zither to better her knowledge on Asian music. She wrote a thesis on Chinese martial arts and became professor of Chinese culture at the University of Paris. Ms. Lucie Rault studied the Vietnamese zither and the Chinese zither during her many years of research for her Ph.D. thesis on the Chinese zither. She is now Director of the ethnomusicology department of the Musee de l’Homme in Paris. In Belgium, Mr. Pierre Thach studied the zither with Phuong Oanh, then opened up a class teaching Vietnamese children how to play this instrument.