t'rưng
Illustration — a đàn T'rưng of the Bahnar people • Illustration — The bamboo xylophone being played The t'rung (Vietnamese: đàn t'rưng) is a traditional bamboo xylophone used by the Jarai people and Bahnar people in Vietnam's Central Highlands. More complicated developments of the Jarai and Bahnar's xylophone have become used in Vietnamese traditional music ensembles (known as the đàn t'rưng) representing the music of the highland minorities.
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t'rưng
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Illustration — a đàn T'rưng of the Bahnar people • Illustration — The bamboo xylophone being played The t'rung (Vietnamese: đàn t'rưng) is a traditional bamboo xylophone used by the Jarai people and Bahnar people in Vietnam's Central Highlands. More complicated developments of the Jarai and Bahnar's xylophone have become used in Vietnamese traditional music ensembles (known as the đàn t'rưng) representing the music of the highland minorities.
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t'rưng is situated in Vietnam.
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- 1.Terry E. Miller, Sean Williams The Garland handbook of Southeast Asian music Page 300 2008 "Other central-highland idiophones include xylophones and bamboo xylophones (t'rung, khinh khung), wooden slit drums and bamboo slit drums (tol mo), bamboo tubes beaten with a stick (goong ting leng), bamboo tubes beaten by hand (t'pol), and Jew's harps."
- 2.Miranda Arana Neotraditional music in Vietnam - Page 57 1999 illustration "t'rưng family" - "The whole set of bamboo xylophones, based on a very simple instrument called the t'rung by the Jarai, or the klongkloiby the Bahnar, has come to represent music from the minority peoples of the central highlands in Vietnam"
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