English: Wat Bo, Siem Reap, Cambodia. November 2001. Khmer Master Musician Yoeun Mek tries to play the one-stringed kse diev instrument for the first time. Very few kse diev players survived the Khmer Rouge and the instrument almost disappeared from Cambodia. The best Master of the kse diev began teaching again at Wat Bo in 2001, where Mek, Master of the Khmer multi-string tro instruments, met him and tried the one-stringed "instrument of the heart".
Wat Bo, Siem Reap, Cambodia. November 2001. Khmer Master Musician Yoeun Mek tries to play the one-stringed kse diev instrument for the first time. Very few kse diev players survived the Khmer Rouge and the instrument almost disappeared from Cambodia. The best Master of the kse diev began teaching again at Wat Bo in 2001, where Mek, Master of the Khmer milti-string tro instruments, met him and tried the one-stringed "instrument of the heart".