Khong wong yai
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khong-wong-yai-177-6672460
title:
Khong wong yai
text:
The khong wong yai is a circle with gongs used in the music of Thailand. It has 16 tuned bossed gongs in a rattan frame and is played with two beaters. The player sits in the center of the circle. It is used in the piphat ensemble to provide the skeletal melody the other instruments of the elaborate ensemble. The gongs are individually tuned with beeswax under the gongs. The khong wong yai can either be played with soft beaters or hard beaters. It is equivalent to the kong thom in Cambodian musi
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Musical instrument
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khong_wong_yai
date created:
2008-04-09T04:25:27Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T01:06:48Z
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