Musical instruments

  • Tam Plung - Chordophone
    Tam Plung is a musical instrument of stringed family of plucking branch of the CoTu ethnic group...
  • Abel - Chordophone
    Abel is a musical instrument of stringed family of bowing branch of the Co Tu ethnic group...
  • Xi-u - Airophone
    Xi-u is the instrument exclusively for men played in ensemble with other instruments in customary rituals of H'mong community...
  • Tieu - Airophone
    Tieu takes part in Tai tu orchestra, funeral orchestra, Bat Am orchestra or orchestra of 8-timbre instruments, and stage orchestras...
  • Truc flute – Airophone
    Sao Truc or Truc flute refers to a wind instrument with arch-form blowing hole. This very flute is so popular in countryside of Vietnam...
  • Bau monochord – Chordophone
    Having literary name as monochord, Bau is a plucking chordophone of Viet majority. Two popular kinds of Bau are bamboo-made Bau...
  • Day lute - Chordophone
    Day lute is the unique instrument of Vietnamese people as there are no trace of such a similar lute in design, produced...
  • Pi sen - Airophone
    Pi sen employs techniques such as tongue fluttering, appoggiatura, and tremolo. Timbres of Pi sen are deep and cracked, and...
  • Ala - Airophone
    Ala flute is a musical instrument of airophonic family, reed branch. Ala is a ornless bamboo section, 30-40 cm in length, 1.5 cm in diameter...