mediaval europeans, east asians, central asian, middle easterns, musical instruments?

rn.curley asked: why medieval europe and central asians including western chinese (uyghurs) and middle easts, sharing there musical instruments? while east asians like China, Korea, Mongolia and Japan has little similar but own unique musical instruments?
ex. almost european nations uses violin, guitar and piano. central asians like persia including western chinese uses daf, kemancheh(”ghijac” in [...]