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September 04, 2008

News : Indonesia's 112-year-old busker

A traditional form of Indonesian music is being preserved by a 112-year-old busker who still makes her living from the Javanese Xylophone.

Hadisono Rukinem walks around the streets of Bantul in Yogyakarta, playing an ancient Javanese xylophone called the gender (pronounce G like "great").

She plays the gender in the hope of preserving a fast-disappearing tradition in an old city where mobile phones chime to the latest pop tunes.

Sonia Legg reports.

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