Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each with its own customs and traditions. Those groups have created a variety of traditional musical instruments, which have played an important role in Vietnamese ...

Ton That Anh looks perturbed … and it’s not just because I’m umm-ing and ah-ing about which of his handmade acoustic guitars to buy. The instruments at Duy Ngoc typically take around a month to craft.

The artifacts represent the earliest-known stringed instruments found in Southeast Asia. A reconstruction of the chordophone, crafted out of deer antler. Photo: Antiquity (2023). DOI: ...

A 2,000-year-old instrument - likely one of the oldest in Southeast Asia - was discovered in Vietnam, researchers say Photo from the journal Antiquity Two antlers sat tucked away in museum storage for ...

One-stop destination: Shops on Nguyen Thien Thuat sell everything from the custom-made acoustic guitars that have made the street's name to eccentrically shaped electric guitars, mandolins and ...

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Vietnamese music researchers have reacted heatedly to recent Chinese claim that Dan bau (monochord zither) is a traditional Chinese instrument and not Vietnamese. Vietnamese music researchers have ...