The musical street in Saigon

Lying near the roundabout that divides the four districts in HCM City (Dist.1,3,5, and 10), Nguyễn Thiện Thuật St. is the name of a small road that connects 2 city central roads together (Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai St. and Điện Biên Phủ St.). Nguyễn Thiện Thuật St. is known by many Saigoneses for its variety of music instrument stores with each complementing altogether to create the diversity for the stores. As a real lover for music, I often visit this street to discover the world of music instruments and shoot some snap photos of them mixed all to let an album out.

Take a walk here, and you will be astounded by the number of instruments here, varied from common worldwide ones such as guitar, bass, ukulele to the traditional ones of Vietnam, as well as other few countries.

Take a walk here, and you will have more in your experience. Feel the sound of traditional music playing in the so-called ‘central heart corner’ of a modern city.

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Some facts you should know:

Most Vietnamese traditional instruments, as well as most of the instruments showcased on Nguyễn Thiện Thuật St. are string instruments.

Many Vietnamese instruments are ‘decorated’ with traditional drawings and pictorial-sounded names, such as ‘moon’.

Similar to Nguyen Thien Thuat St. in HCMC, Hao Nam St. in Ha Noi is a street full of instruments too, with a diversity of Northern Vietnamese traditional music.