Sunday, August 30, 2015

Traditional Cambodian musical instruments

Traditional Cambodian musical instruments are the musical instruments used in the traditional and classical musics ofCambodia. They comprise a wide range of wind, string, and percussion instruments, used by both the Khmer majority as well as the nation's ethnic minorities


Wind

Flutes


·         Khloy - vertical duct flute made of bamboo, hardwood, or plastic, with buzzing membrane
·         Khloy ek - smaller in size
·         Khloy thom - larger in size

Free-reed


·         Sneng - water buffalo or ox horn with a single free reed
·         Pey pok - free-reed pipe
·         Ploy (also called m'baut) - mouth organ with gourd body and five to seven bamboo pipes; used by Mon-Khmer-speaking upland ethnic minorities
·         Ken/Khaen - free-reed mouth organ used in northwestern Cambodia
·         Angkuoch (also called kangkuoch) - jaw harp made of bamboo or metal

Kaois


·         Sralai - quadruple-reed oboe
·         Sralai toch - small quadruple-reed oboe
·         Sralai thom - large quadruple-reed oboe
·         Pey ar (also spelled beyaw, and also called bey prabauh) - oboe with cylindrical bore

Horns

·         Saing - conch shell horn

Other

·         Slek - tree leaf used as a wind instrument

String

Bowed


A pair of tro
·         Tro - fiddle
·         Tro Khmer - three-string vertical spike fiddle with coconut shell body; used in classical music
·         Tro che - high-pitched two-string vertical fiddle, with face covered with snakeskin
·         Tro sau toch - two-string vertical fiddle with hardwood body; used in classical music
·         Tro sau thom - two-string vertical fiddle with hardwood body; used in classical music
·         Tro u (also spelled tro ou) - lower two-string vertical fiddle with a coconut shell body, with face covered with calfskin or snakeskin; used in classical music

Plucked

A krapeu (takhe)
·         Chapey dang veng - plucked fretted lute
·         Krapeu (also called takhe) - crocodile-shaped fretted floor zither with three strings
·         Kse diev (also spelled se diev, and also called khse muoy) - chest-resonated stick zither)

Struck


·         Khim - hammered dulcimer




Percussion

Drums


A thon
·         Sampho - barrel drum, played with the hands
·         Skor ( (also spelled sko)

·         Skor thom - pair of large barrel drums, played with sticks
·         Thon - goblet-shaped drum, played with the hands
·         Rumana - frame drum, played with the hands











Gong chimes

·         Kong vong toch (also called kong toch) - small gong circle
·         Kong vong thom (also called kong thom) - large gong circle












Keyboard

·         Roneat - trough-resonated keyboard percussion instrument; generally played with two mallets and used in Khmer classical and theater music

·         Roneat ek - smaller xylophone
·         Roneat thung - larger xylophone
·         Roneat dek - smaller metallophone
·         Roneat thong larger metallophone; no longer used

Gongs

·         Kong vong - single suspended gong

Clappers

·         Krap - pair of flat bamboo or hardwood sticks

Cymbals


·         Ching - pair of small cymbals used to mark time
·         Chap - pair of flat cymbals





Woodblocks

·         Pan - woodblock

·         Nay pay - Pellow

·         Sindang - Small Size Woodblocks
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org

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