Instruments Used in Pinpeat Ensembles
This list presents instruments which are or have been used in various pinpeat ensembles.
- roneat - xylophones
- ranard ek - the lead high-pitched bamboo xylophone
- ranard thung - a low-pitched xylophone
- ranard dek - a metal xylophone or metallophone
- ranard thong - a metallophone
- kong vong (or "gong vong" in some romanisations)- gong circles
- kong vong thom - a 'large circle of gongs'
- kong vong toch - a 'small circle of gongs'
- drums
- skor thom - two big drums (similar to taiko drums) played with drumsticks
- samphor - a double-headed drum played with hands
- sralai - a quadruple-reed
- sralai thom - a large quadruple-reed flute
- sralai toch - a small quadruple-reed flute
- khloy - a type of bamboo flute (was used in place of the sralai in the past)
- chhing (chhap) - finger cymbals
- krap - wooden clappers (presently rarely used)
Read more about this topic: Pinpeat
Famous quotes containing the word instruments:
“We are all instruments endowed with feeling and memory. Our senses are so many strings that are struck by surrounding objects and that also frequently strike themselves.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–84)