"The music of the Dan Bau should be solely for the pleasure of its player. Don't listen to it if you are a young woman."

The guitar with sunken frets has six strings...

In each region of Vietnam, each ethnic group...

The đoan instrument having four strings....

Tinh Then is a musical instrument of stringed family of plucking branch of the Tay ethnic group.

This is a plucking chorphone of H'mong minority living the Northern mountainous region of Vietnam.

Goong Kram or Goong Der (in Gia rai) or Goong R La (Mn"ng gar) or Koktal­ (Laglay)... is a chordophonic musical instrument of plucking branch of Ede minority.

Tan Mang is musical instrument of chordophonic family, plucking branch of Mường minority. The appearance of Tàn máng is nearly the same to the monochord of Viet majority, but its structure is more simple. It consists of 4 components, including body (resonator), spout, string and tuning peg.

K'ny is the only fiddle of Giarai people. It is a chordophone of bow branch.

Day lute is a plucking chordophone of Viet majority. Its literary name as Vo de cam or bottom-less lute is derived from its bottom-less sound box.

Ty ba is a plucking stringed instrument of Viet majority. Some sources proved that Ty ba has long appeared in China under the name Pipa, and Japan under Biwa.

Having literary name as monochord, Bau is a plucking chordophone of Viet majority. Two popular kinds of Bau are bamboo-made Bau and wooden-sound board Bau.