In pictures: Accordion fanatic in NW China's Xinjiang (8)

Daowuran Duishanhan tests the timbre of the reed of an accordion in Tacheng of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, July 19, 2017. Daowuran is a teacher, a maintenance man and a collector of accordion who lives in Tacheng City. The 46-year-old man is known as an accordion fanatic. Dao started to learn accordion at 9 years old and spent 3 years on professional learning at a college in Tacheng and began his collection of accordion in 1987. He has collected nearly 400 accordions over the past 30 years and hosted a household museum of accordions in 2016. In the process of his collection, he has gradually learned how to repair accordions. (Xinhua/Hu huhu)