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Đàn đáy
Long-necked, Trapezoidal back-less Vietnamese three-stringed silk-strung lute with eleven high bamboo frets, built exclusively for Ca trù chamber song.
Classification
Instrument
Origin / Scope
Vietnam
Connected Rooms
1 Tradition
Bibliography
1 Source
Archival note & context
Unlike any other East or Southeast Asian lute, the đàn đáy lacks a rear soundboard backplate, yielding an intimate, muted resonance tailored to accompany the unamplified female đào nương voice.
Its tall bamboo frets allow deep expressive pitch-bending (nhấn) mirroring Vietnamese tonal inflections.
Used in traditions
1Sources
1What’s on this page is sourced from the citation below.
| Source | Publisher | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| Ca trù Singing — Vietnam Institute for Musicology & UNESCO Urgent Safeguarding | UNESCO ICH, 2009 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |