The t'rung (đàn T'rưng) is a traditional

bamboo Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, bu ...

xylophone The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the ...

used by the

Jarai people Jarai people or Jarais ( vi, Người Gia Rai, , or ; km, ចារ៉ាយ, ) are an ethnic group in Vietnam's Central Highlands ( Gia Lai and Kon Tum Provinces, with smaller populations in Đắk Lắk Province), as well as in the Cambodian ...

and

Bahnar people The Bahnar or Ba-Na are an ethnic group of Vietnam living primarily in the Central Highland provinces of Gia Lai and Kon Tum, as well as the coastal provinces of Bình Định and Phú Yên. They speak the Bahnar language belongs the Bahnari ...

in Vietnam's Central Highlands. More complicated developments of the Jarai and Bahnar's xylophone have become used in Vietnamese traditional music ensembles (known as the đàn T'rưng) representing the music of the highland minorities.Miranda Arana Neotraditional music in Vietnam - Page 57 1999 illustration "t'rưng family" - "The whole set of bamboo xylophones, based on a very simple instrument called the t'rung by the Jarai, or the klongkloiby the Bahnar, has come to represent music from the minority peoples of the central highlands in Vietnam"

References

Vietnamese musical instruments {{Mallet-stub