Music plays a vital role for every body. It is the musical fine arts that unite culture, traditional and geographical nature of respective world nations. Though they may be different in any way. The musical instruments that create the musical tones are interesting. So let’s study the musical instruments of Myanmar nationals.

Myanmar traditional doyen artiste Music Academy Award Winner Gita Lulin U Ko Ko explained about Donmin which is a kind of string instrument.

Donmin is one of Myanma traditional musical instrument called "Khin", which was played in the olden days. In Chinese, it is named ‘ Chin’. On its flat body, strings are fastened and bamboo sticks are used to play on them.

In Europe, it is called "Decimal" and had been invented by Henry. In our country, we also have invented such similar kind of musical instrument. We have to assume that the musical instrument “ Khin” was later transformed into the Donmin.

Let's listen to the performance of Donmin Sein Khin Lay, who is the elder brother of the famous Myanma traditional drum-circle player Sein Bo Tint.

Musical instrument "Khin" is a kind of ancient traditional string instruments, from which Donmin was derived. It has the consecutive left and right tones and at least 3 octaves.

You can play Donmin instead of the piano, as Donmin is portable and much cheaper than the piano. Based on these good points, it is very convenient for Donmin enthusiast to learn how to play the Donmin.

We will be presenting other string musical instruments in our future programmes. Please tune in.