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  2. Đàn tranh - Wikipedia

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    The Vietnamese 's đàn tranh came from the Chinese Chaozhou zheng. In the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the đàn tranh had 14 strings. [2] [3] Between the late 15th and the 18th centuries, the number of strings of the đàn tranh increased to fifteen and the instrument was called thập ngũ huyền cầm. [2]

  3. Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Đàn tre ("bamboo instrument") - A hybrid form of the Vietnamese plucked string instrument, similar to a Đàn tính, called a Đàn tre, was created by Nguyễn Minh Tâm, who escaped from Vietnam in 1982 and ultimately settled in Australia. The instrument has twenty-three 800 mm (31 in)-long wire strings attached to a bamboo tube with a ...

  4. C string handling - Wikipedia

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    Strings are passed to functions by passing a pointer to the first code unit. Since char * and wchar_t * are different types, the functions that process wide strings are different than the ones processing normal strings and have different names. String literals ("text" in the C source code) are converted to arrays during compilation. [2]

  5. Đàn nhị - Wikipedia

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    The đàn nhị (Vietnamese: [ɗâːn ɲîˀ], Chữ Nôm: 彈二), also called đàn cò, is a Vietnamese bowed string instrument with two strings. The word nhị means "two" in Sino-Vietnamese, and đàn means "instrument". Its sound box is generally covered on one end with snakeskin. [1]

  6. Music of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    This term literally means "nostalgia for the past", it is a special type of singing with the background music often being the đàn tranh zither or the đàn ghi-ta (Vietnamized guitar). In a typical cải lương play, the actresses and actors would use a combination of regular spoken dialogue and vọng cổ to express their thoughts and ...

  7. Koto (instrument) - Wikipedia

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    The koto (箏 or 琴) is a Japanese plucked half-tube zither instrument, and the national instrument of Japan. It is derived from the Chinese zheng and se, and similar to the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Vietnamese đàn tranh, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen. [1]

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    From April 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William S. Thompson, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 22.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a 67.8 percent return from the S&P 500.

  9. Đàn nguyệt - Wikipedia

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    A man playing the đàn nguyệt in a performance in Paris. The đàn nguyệt shown here with two strings. Chánh Già's đàn kìm. The đàn nguyệt ( Vietnamese pronunciation: [ɗǎn ŋwiə̂ˀt] "moon-shaped lute", Chữ Nôm: 彈月) also called nguyệt cầm (Chữ Hán: 月琴), đàn kìm, is a two-stringed Vietnamese traditional musical instrument. [1]