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Saw duang

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2026
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The saw duang is a two-stringed vertical fiddle used in traditional Thai music. The sound is produced by the bow made from horsetail hair which goes between the strings made from silk. The bow has to be tilted to switch from one string to another. The saw duang is light and played vertically on the lap. It creates a bright tone unlike the saw u which produces a mellow sound. Another instrument that is similar to the saw duang is the Chinese stringed instrument called huqin.

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This entry incorporates text from “Saw duang” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.