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 ...

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 ...

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Vietnam has a rich treasure of traditional musical instruments, of which bamboo instruments are the oldest. A bamboo musical instrument of the central highlanders called T'rung Bamboo, a familiar ...

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. One of the longest-serving artisans on Nguyen Thien Thuat in Ho Chi ...