Instrumental music is played on solo instruments or in small ensembles of plucked and bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and various cymbals, gongs, and drums.

Tam Tri mastered most of the Vietnamese traditional musical instruments one at a time, including the zither, plucked lutes, bowed instruments, flutes, drums and gongs.

Sparkling mandolins, gently-strummed guitars and tabla drums in the verses, with the addition of snakey bowed instruments and castanets in the chorus.

Bowed stringed instruments use different bowing techniques to achieve different articulations.

Antes opened a shop in 1762 and the shop records show that he created up to seven bowed stringed instruments.

Bowed musical instruments (kabak kemane, tambur, kemençe)

Fronimo is a software program for engraving of tabulature for lutes, archlute, theorbo and other plucked and bowed instruments.

Bowed stringed instruments include the kabak kemane and the kemenche or Pontian Lyra.

His Metodo di violoncello (Milan, 1876) has an interesting preface, comparing the earliest bowed instruments, and their evolution, with folk instruments from many countries.

Bowed stringed instruments take so long to mature that rival instruments may already exist.