Thai Musical Instruments - Northeast

Northeast

  • Huen - This drum is shaped like a drum that is used in the puangmangkog set. It is always played with a piphat ensemble.
  • Khaen - mouth organ
  • Wot - a circular panpipe made of 6-9 various lengths of small bamboo pipes. Play by holding between the hands, and while rotating, blow downwards into the pipes.

(mai-ruak or mai-hia, mai-ku-khan)

  • Phin - a fretted, plucked lute
  • Pong lang - log xylophone played by two players with hard stick. Its shape is like a xylophone consisting of 15 wooden bars stringed together
  • Jakhe (Kabue) - one of the important instruments in the mahori khamen ensemble. It has three strings
  • Grajabpi - The krachappi is a plucked stringed instrument. Its turtle shape sound box is made of jackfruit wood
  • Saw kantruem - a bowed string instrument with a wooden soundbox, the head of which is covered with snakeskin.
  • Glong kantruem - a single-headed drum
  • Pi salai - a double-reed oboe accompanied with kantrum ensemble
  • Krap khu - a pair of hard wooden bars two pairs made a set, played with both hands as percussion in "Kantruem ensemble".

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