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A gong [note 1] is a percussion instrument originating from Southeast Asia, ... to distinguish it from the bossed gongs that give a tuned note.
Gongche notation or gongchepu is a traditional musical notation method, once popular in ancient China.It uses Chinese characters to represent musical notes.It was named after two of the Chinese characters that were used to represent musical notes, namely "工" gōng and "尺" chě.
Key signatures, barlines, and time signatures are also employed. Many symbols from Western standard notation, such as bar lines, time signatures, accidentals, tie and slur, and the expression markings are also used. The number of dashes following a numeral represents the number of crotchets (quarter notes) by which the note extends.
Xiaoluo (小锣) – a small flat gong whose pitch rises when struck with the side of a flat wooden stick; Yueluo (月锣) – small pitched gong held by a string in the palm of the hand and struck with a small stick; used in Chaozhou music; Jingluo (镜锣) – a small flat gong used in the traditional music of Fujian
The strike tone, strike note, or tap note, of a percussion instrument (e.g. bell, chime or gong) when struck, is the dominant note perceived immediately by the human ear.It is also known as the prime or fundamental note.
This is a partitioned list of percussion instruments showing their usage as tuned or untuned. See pitched percussion instrument for discussion of the differences between tuned and untuned percussion. The term pitched percussion is now preferred to the traditional term tuned percussion: Each list is alphabetical.
The notes of this scale are called gōng 宫, shāng 商, jué 角, zhǐ 徵 and yǔ 羽. By starting from a different point of this sequence, a scale (named after its starting note) with a different interval sequence is created, similar to the construction of modes in modern Western music.
Tuned cowbells are known as almglocken or alpine bells [5] Crotale: Both 111.24 Idiophone Crystallophone: Pitched Idiophone Cuíca: Disputed Pitched 231.11 Friction Membranophone Cultrun: Chile Unpitched 321.322 Membranophone Cup chime: Pitched 111.24 Idiophone The only pitched cymbal, it is identical to a bell cymbal in all but usage Cymbal ...