The ''đàn tam thập lục'' (

chữ Hán ( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...

: 彈三十六, also called simply ''tam thập lục'') is a Vietnamese

hammered dulcimer The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-string instrument which consists of String (music), strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board (music), sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set bef ...

with 36 metal strings.Cannon, Alexander M. “When Charisma Sustains Tradition: Deploying Musical Competence in Southern Vietnam.” Ethnomusicology 57, no. 1 (2013): 88–115. https://doi.org/10.5406/ethnomusicology.57.1.0088. It is used in various genres of traditional music and drama, as well as in modernized traditional music. The instrument is very similar to the Chinese ''

yangqin The trapezoidal yangqin () is a Chinese hammered dulcimer, likely derived from the Iranian santur or the European dulcimer. It used to be written with the characters 洋琴 (lit. "foreign zither"), but over time the first character changed to ...

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''Đàn tam thập lục'' page
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