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Thai Music

This document describes various traditional musical instruments from Thailand. It divides the instruments into three categories: chordophones (string instruments), khrueang si (bowed string instruments), khrueang ti (percussion instruments), khrueang pao (aerophones/wind instruments), and instrumental ensembles like piphat and khrueang sai. Some examples provided include the khlui bamboo flute, khim dulcimer, various drums, and the piphat ensemble which features wind instruments and percussion to accompany Buddhist ceremonies and theatrical performances.

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Thai Music

This document describes various traditional musical instruments from Thailand. It divides the instruments into three categories: chordophones (string instruments), khrueang si (bowed string instruments), khrueang ti (percussion instruments), khrueang pao (aerophones/wind instruments), and instrumental ensembles like piphat and khrueang sai. Some examples provided include the khlui bamboo flute, khim dulcimer, various drums, and the piphat ensemble which features wind instruments and percussion to accompany Buddhist ceremonies and theatrical performances.

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Khrueang Dit

•These are chordophones


that is plucked.
Grajabpi- old kind of lute which
has frets.
Jakhe- three stringed zither
shaped like a crocodile.
Phin- is a lute wit three-string
used in the northeastern
Thailand
Phin Phia- stick zither with a
chest resonator.
Sueng- a lute from northern
thailand.
Phin Hai or Hai Song- this is a
set of clay pots with a rubber
band stretched over the open
mouth.
Khrueang Si
•Chordophones that are
bowed.
Saw Duang- high-pitched two
stringed bowed lute with a body
made of hardwood. This
instrument is used in Thai
classical music.
Saw U- low-pitched two stringed
bowed lute.
Saw sam sai- unfretted spike
fiddle with three strings and a
body made from coconut shell.
Saw pip or Saw krapong-
fiddles with two strings and a
body made of metal can; saw
krapong is smaller than saw pip.
Salo- a spike fiddle with three
strings used in Lanna Region.
Khrueang Ti
•These are instruments
that are struck.
Khim- is a dulcimer played by
striking the strings with a
hammer.
Taphon or Klawng Taphon- a
barrel shaped drum that is
considered sacred among the
thai people.
Glong Thad- a large drum played
using stick.
Rammana- a frame drum played
with the hand.
Glong Thap- a goblet shaped
drum.
Glong Khaek- a drum with a
shaped of barrel played usually
with pair.
Glong Yao- is a long drum
played using a hand.
Poengmang- this is a set of
tuned drums.
Glong Banthon- is the smallest
barrel drum among the
traditional musical instruments
of Thailand that is used in the
ritual involving the royal family of
thailand
Khong Wong Lek- a circle of
small bossed gongs tuned and
mounted in a rattan frame.
Khong Wong Yai- a circle of
small knobbed gongs fixed onto
structured made of rattan. These
gongs produced tones that are
an octave higher than khong
wong lek.
Khong Mon- is a set of many
small-tune knobbed gongs
arrayed vertically structure. This
particular idiophone is used in
funeral music.
Khong Rang- is a set of eight
tuned gongs horizontally hung in
a straight frame. This tuned
idiophone is similar to the
kulintang of the Mindanao in the
Philippines.
Krap- Thai clapper
Krap phuang- an idiophone
composed of hardwood and bras
slats that are bundled together in
one end.
Krap sepha- pair of bamboo or
hardwood sticks.
Chap- pair of flat cymbals joined
by a chord.
Khrueang pao
•These are aerophones
that are blown.
Khlui- a pipe flute made of
bamboo, hardwood or plastic.
Wot- a circular panpipe used
in Isan region of northeast
Thailand. This is played by
holding between two hands,
and while rotating blowing
downward into the pipes
Khaen- is a mouth organ.
Pi Chum- is a free-reed pipe.
Gourd mouth organ- aerophone
used by the highlanders of
northern Thailand.
Pi- double reed aerophone imilar
to oboe.
Pi- double reed aerophone imilar
to oboe.
Trae- horn made of metal.
Sang- this is a horn made from
conch shell.
Piphat
• This is a kind of instrumental
ensemble used in classical music
of Thailand. It features wind and
percussion instruments. This
midsized orchestra is used to
accompany Buddhist ceremonies.
• This is also used to accompany
their masked dance-drama called
khon, classical dance lakhon, and
their shadow puppet theatrical
presentations. Its instruments
include two ranat, pi , klong,
klong wong lek and khong wong
yai.
• Piphat can be performed in a
loud style outside called piphat
mai khaeng or in a indoor style
called piphat mai nuam.
Khruean Sai
• Khrueang sai literally means
“String Ensemble”. A typical
ensemble features saw duang,
saw u, jakhe, khlui, hand drums
and various cymbals.
• This khrueang sai ensemble is
primarily used for instrumental
indoor performances.
Additionally this orchestra is used
for accompanying the stick
puppet theater of Thailand called
hoon grabok.

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