Tro u

A Thai saw u, equivalent to the tro u. Both the Cambodian and Thai instruments use a coconut shell for the instrument's body, covered with skin for the soundboard.

The tro u (Khmer: ទ្រអ៊ូ; also spelled tro ou) is a traditional instrument from Cambodia. It is a low-pitched, two-stringed vertical fiddle with a round-bodied coconut shell body that has one end covered with animal skin. Its two strings are made of silk, gut, nylon, or metal, running over a bridge made of bamboo, wood, bone, ivory, or seashell. It is a bowed instrument with a difference from many; rather than run the bow across the strings from the outside, one of the instrument's strings passes inside the bow's hair, between wood and hair.[1] The result is that the bow and strings are intertwined. The bow presses down on one string to play it and pulls upward on the other string to play that one.

It is similar to the Thai saw u and the Chinese yehu, although the latter instrument has a wooden rather than animal skin face.

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  1. ↑ Khean, Yun; Dorivan, Keo; Lina, Y; Lenna, Mao. Traditional Musical Instruments of Cambodia (PDF). Kingdom of Cambodia: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. p. 59.
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