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Taiwanese conductor teaches DOST-FPRDI staff how to make bamboo musical instruments
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A retired professor and consultant of the Taiwan Bamboo Orchestra visited DOST- Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) last 3-7 February 2020 to conduct a training on bamboo musical instruments (BMI) making and tuning. The workshop was attended by 34 FPRDI employees and 2 staff from the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP).
Among other things, Dr. Wu Shih-Yin discussed the basic concepts and categories of musical instruments, and the production of BMIs using scientific calculations. He also explained why bamboo is a preferred material for musical instruments in some areas in South America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
DOST-FPRDI training breathes life to Bohol furniture shop
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Jerome Dotarot is one enthusiastic businessman who has been mass producing school desks and tables in his hometown in Candijay, Bohol for seven years now.
He owns LU Lumber, a small company that makes 180 wooden school chairs a day, sold at Php 895 each. He has a bright outlook, he says, because over the last two years, he has seen his furniture shop’s income double from Php 100,000 to 200,000 a month.
“I was not expecting this at all,” he says, “as during our first five years, I had gotten used to the slow pace of our operations. But attending a DOST-FPRDI training on wood finishing in 2017 changed everything for me.”
According to Dotarot, before his workers attended the training, they did not know much about wood finishing. They were not particular about the type of varnish they used, and relied on only two kinds of sanding paper.
DOST-FPRDI researcher named FORESPI’s 2019 Outstanding Young Scientist
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For. Jennifer M. Conda of the DOST- Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) was named the 2019 Outstanding Young Scientist for Research in Forest and Natural Resources Utilization by the Forests and Natural Resources Research Society of the Philippines, Inc. (FORESPI). She was cited for her work in the fields of wood identification and forest botany.
According to FORESPI, Conda’s “significant research publications and extension services have exemplified valuable contribution to local, national and/or international development”.
