The ''đàn tam thập lục'' (also called simply ''tam thập lục'') is a Vietnamese

hammered dulcimer The hammered dulcimer (also called the hammer dulcimer) is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board. The hammered dulcimer is set before the musician, who in more trad ...

with 36 metal strings. 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 ...

''.

External links

''Đàn tam thập lục'' page
Hammered box zithers Vietnamese musical instruments {{zither-instrument-stub