Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/03/30
By: Hung Chien-lun and Chung Yu-chen

Japanese luthier Muneyuki Nakazawa and his wife Kimiko Nakazawa.

Taipei, March 30 (CNA) Four instruments made from the debris of an earthquake and a tsunami that devastated northeast Japan in 2011 will be the centerpiece of a concert in Taipei on Sunday.

The “tsunami instruments” — two violins, a viola and a cello — were crafted by Japanese master luthier Muneyuki Nakazawa, using wood left behind by a tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan in the wake of a magnitude 9 earthquake on March 11, 2011.

At a benefit concert in Taipei on Sunday, the Taiwanese Qiyan Chamber Orchestra will perform Beethoven’s String Quartets and the music of late Taiwanese composer Tyzen Hsiao (蕭泰然).

Nakazawa, 78, said Friday at a news conference in Taipei that he was delighted to show his gratitude in a personal way for the support Taiwan provided in the wake of the 2011 disaster that left more than 18,000 people dead or missing.    [FULL  STORY]