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The ''đà n tứ'' (
chữ Hán
Chữ Hán (𡨸漢, literally "Chinese characters", ), Chữ Nho (𡨸儒, literally "Confucian characters", ) or Hán tá»± (æ¼¢å—, ), is the Vietnamese term for Chinese characters, used to write Văn ngôn (which is a form of Classical Chinese ...
: 彈四) (''tứ'' meaning "four" in Sino-Vietnamese, referring to the instrument's number of strings), also called ''đà n đoản'' (''đoản'' meaning "short," referring to the instrument's neck) or ''đà n tứ tròn'' (''tròn'' meaning "round"), is a traditional Vietnamese stringed musical instrument, this is short-necked, round-bodied lute derived from the Chinese '' yueqin'', with four strings in double courses
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. It is little used today.
A different instrument with the same name, which is similar to the Chinese '' zhongruan'' but with a rectangular or slightly trapezoidal soundbox, is used in Vietnam's tradition of ''nhạc dân tộc cải biên ''Nhạc dân tộc cải biên'' is a modern form of Vietnamese folk music which arose in the 1950s after the founding of the Hanoi Conservatory of Music in 1956. This development involved writing traditional music using Western musical notation, w ...
''. In around the 1960s, musicians in Vietnam's conservatories improved the ''đà n tứs ability to play Western-style music by creating a rectangular body with longer strings and fretting designed for the Western diatonic scale
In music theory, a diatonic scale is any heptatonic scale that includes five whole steps (whole tones) and two half steps (semitones) in each octave, in which the two half steps are separated from each other by either two or three whole steps, ...
, which is also called ''đà n tứ thùng'' (''thùng'' meaning "box") to distinguish it from the traditional ''đà n tứ tròn'' (''đà n đoản''). This newer instrument has become much more popular than the traditional version.
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