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354:- fiddle of Cham people in Vietnam. The body of the kanyi is made of a golden tortoise shell. On the body of the golden tortoise shell, there is a small piece of bamboo about the size of a big toe, about 0.65cm long. At the beginning of this bamboo segment, there are two rods to pull the rope called two kanyi pegs. From two pull rods (two ears) connected to the bamboo by a string is the main string of kanyi. In addition, this pull rod is connected to the bamboo with ponytail that bends like a bow. This is the string that pulls the kanyi to make the sound. 540: 603: 587: 521: 560: 44: 412: 504:
Like most of the other members of the family, it is a two stringed instrument. Formerly, silk strings were standard, but now metal wire or cable is used. The resonating chamber, a cylinder, is made of hardwood or ivory. There are no standard sizes; however the resonating chamber can be 65–70 mm
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spike fiddle. The two-stringed tros are tuned in a fifth, while the three-stringed tro Khmer is tuned in fourths. The tros, with the exception of the tro Khmer, are strung so that the bowstring is permanently placed between the two stings. When the musician plays, the placement of the bow causes the
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shell that has one end covered with animal skin, such as snake or calfskin. Its two strings are made of silk (not as common now), gut, nylon, or metal, running over a bridge made of bamboo or wood. The coconut may have designs carved into its back-side. It is similar to the Thai
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at the bottom of the stick, covered with leather or snake skin. Strings run from pegs at the top of the stick and secured at the bottom, running across the soundbox. The larger the soundbox, the lower the pitch range. Instruments in this family include the two-stringed
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means "big" in Khmer. The cylindrical sound box is approximately 120 mm long and 90mm across the skin head. The neck can measure 620mm long. It is made from black wood but more basic materials were used, such as a hollow
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who live in Cambodia and has a sound-bowl resonator made from a turtle shell. It is played in the Bassac theater orchestra and the yike orchestra. It originally came from the
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fiddles with cylinder-shaped resonance chambers. Bows  are laid with the instruments, passing between fiddle strings and not separated without taking the strings loose.
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321.313.71: Spike tube lutes. Stringed musical instruments with a plain handle passing through a permanently attached resonator through the sides, played with a bow.)
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strings to be played at once, one from below and one from above. In contrast, western fiddles (such as the
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Tro Khmer...The bowing method is above the strings, not between the strings as for the Tro Sau and Tro Ou.
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period," about 1528–1594, and is the lowest pitched tro, with strings tuned in a 5th, approximately
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is a bowed stringed instrument from Cambodia, with metal strings tuned in a 5th, approximately
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s. The vestigial spike (with strings attached) pokes through the bottom of the resonator.
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that is held and played vertically. Spike fiddles have a handle that passes through the
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Archived online auction with coconut bodied instrument, advertised as tro che
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s with cylinder soundboxes. The instrument on the right has a snakeskin head.
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It is used in Cambodian classical music ensembles, the arak, kar, mohori and
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Archived online auction with hardwood cylinder body, advertised as tro che
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across and 105 mm long. The skin soundboard, is made of snakeskin or
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UNESCO document, Traditional Musical Instruments of Cambodia. PDF.
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ensembles. May be used in the Bassac theater orchestra.
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Been, indigenous one stringed fiddle of Assam Plains
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Its two metal strings are tuned 291:that dates back at least as far as the " 650: 516: 457:, higher than the larger tro sau thom. 680: 678: 676: 674: 252:,  as well as the three-stringed 29: 672: 670: 668: 666: 664: 662: 660: 658: 656: 654: 404:ensembles, the arak, kar, mohori and 7: 784:. Oxford University Press. p.  287:) is a traditional instrument from 25: 1113:Plucked: harps, zithers and lutes 133:The tro saus are similar to the: 601: 585: 558: 538: 519: 383:is the larger and lower-pitched 42: 75:Hornbostel–Sachs classification 688:"The Khmer People of Cambodia" 110:The tro ou is similar to the: 1: 1294:Cambodian musical instruments 346:) is played "exclusively" by 1047:ស្គរ​ទីមីឡា (hourglass drum) 208:) is Cambodia's traditional 1320: 1180:(Sralai toch, sralai thom) 464:, as the lead instrument. 1171:Oboes and free reed pipes 923:Roneat dek / roneat thong 477: 437: 402:Cambodian classical music 363: 342: 329:Played in the mohori and 231:. 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Index

Tro sau thom

Classification
Bowed string instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
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321.313
Related instruments
Saw u
Yehu
Đàn gáo
Saw duang
Haegeum
Korea
Huqin
Kokyū
Erhu
Đàn nhị
Cò ke
Muong people
Khmer
spike fiddle
bowed
string instrument
resonator
erhu
huqin
soundbox
tro Khmer
violin

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