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Sound sample: seven-note scale played on the Ranat ek. The ranat ek (Thai: ระนาดเอก, pronounced [ranâːt ʔèːk], "also xylophone") is a Thai musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of 22 wooden bars suspended by cords over a boat-shaped trough resonator and struck by two mallets.
Others are "trough" xylophones with a single hollow body that acts as a resonator for all the bars. [6] Old methods consisted of arranging the bars on tied bundles of straw, and, is still practiced today, placing the bars adjacent to each other in a ladder-like layout. Ancient mallets were made of willow wood with spoon-like bowls on the beaten ...
The whole melody is shifted up or down one xylophone bar: 1 is replaced by 2, 2 by 3, 3 by 4, 4 by 5 and 5 by 1. Although in the middle of the xylophone, the structure of the piece remains the same, the movement patterns of the musicians are changed, and the okukoonera part may become completely different.
A gabbang consists of a set of trapezoidal bamboo bars of increasing length resting on a resonator. [2] The number of bars varies with the group that made them: Among Yakans, the number ranges from three to nine bamboo bars, but the common agung gabbang has five; among Tausugs, the number ranges from 14 to 22 bamboo bars, but the common gabbang has 12; and in Palawan, the common gabbang has five.
Glass marimba can be constructed in a variety of ways. How one resonates the keys governs the construction method and design. Resonation can be accomplished using a single resonator which all the keys resonate into, such as an open top box, or individual resonators for each key which can be a tube, box, or sphere.
But the pitch also will be affected by the shape of resonator and by the size of opening and amount of lip or neck the resonator has. [3] A conical shaped resonator, such as a megaphone, tends to amplify all pitches indiscriminately. A cylindrical shaped resonator is affected primarily by the length of the tube through which the sound wave travels.
The Mofu people historically played a xylophone with a single horn resonator, along with calabash resonators. Northeast Nigerian cow horn resonators often have holes covered with spider webs to create a buzzing sound. Central Africa-type xylophones: consist of a set of wooden planks laid on banana logs. These are becoming increasingly rare ...
Roneat means xylophone where thung literally mean [wooden] container in Khmer. [1] This may derived from the shape of this type of xylophone which shaped like a rectangular wooden container. Terry E. Miller and Sean Williams in their book The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music , Roneat Thung is better called Roneat thomm/ thum which ...