Traditional Musical Instruments of Vietnam Vietnam has been proud of its diversified and rich treasure of traditional musical instruments that has been being formed throughout the life journey and developed over the long history of founding and defending of the nation.

        Among those instruments are ones that are locally created and imbued with indigenous identities. There also have seen other instruments that were brought into Vietnam through different ways but later were indigenized in line with musical languages and aesthetics of the nation. For the time being, hundreds of various instruments of such precious cultural resources are systematically and scientifically displayed at Vietnam Musical Instruments Showroom of Vietnamese Institute for Musicology.

•  Sixteen-chord zither (Đàn Tranh )

•  Monochord (Đàn Bầu)

•  Vietnamese two-chord fiddle (Đàn Cò )

•  Viol with resonance box with coconut (Đàn Gáo)

• Hu Violin (Đàn Hồ)

• Two-chord lute (Đàn Sến )

•  Vietnamese two-chord guitar (Đàn Nguyệt)

•  Chinese 4 chord lute (Đàn Tỳ bà)

• Three-chord lute (Đàm Tam)

•  Four-chord lute with rectangular resonance box (Đàn Đáy)

•  Short handle musical instrument (Đàn Đoãn )

• A musical instrument similar to the xylophone (Đàn T'rưng)