Mel Jung playing the percussion instruments in Gum Sing Musical Society

Shows Mel Jung (鄭務本) playing the percussion instruments including drums, gongs and wooden blocks in the meeting room of Gum Sing Musical Society. The history of Chinese percussion instruments is longer than any other section of traditional Chinese instruments. The percussion section is the most important section in Chinese opera, particularly in scenes involving martial arts.

In Collection:

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Creator

• Amos, Robert

Subject

• Gum Sing Musical Society (Victoria, B.C.)
• Operas, Chinese
• Operas
• Jung, Mel
• Associations, institutions, etc.

Identifier

• AMOS 84GSmusician2

Date created

• 2009

Resource type

• Still Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Extent

• 1 colour photograph

Geographic coverage

• British Columbia--Victoria
• British Columbia--Victoria--Chinatown

Coordinates

• 48.4359, -123.35155
• 48.4294, -123.3679

Physical repository

• Amos, Robert

Collection

• Victoria’s Chinatown, a gateway to the past and present of Chinese Canadians

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Genre

• color photographs
• photographs

Is referenced by

• Victoria's Chinatown Project Website: https://chinatown.library.uvic.ca/index.html

Date digitized

• 2012

Technical note

• Cataloguing metadata provided by MH. Migration metadata by MT.

Rights

• Copyright held by Robert Amos. Permission granted for use on Victoria’s Chinatown website only. For all other uses please contact the copyright holder. These images are provided with the consent of Robert Amos, and cannot be reproduced or copied without his permission.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/60zm-k333

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