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Nat was born in Bangkok and studied at Bangkok Christian College.He started learning piano at the age of nine and became a student of Pantipa Treepoonpol. He won the first prize in the first Siam Music Festival in 1971 when he was 16.
Piphat is the most common and iconic Thai classical music style. It symbolizes the dancing of the Thailand's legendary dragons, and consists of a midsized orchestra including two xylophones ( ranat ), an oboe ( pi ), barrel drums (klong) and two circular sets of tuned horizontal gong-chimes ( khong wong lek and khong wong yai ).
Traditional Thai musical instruments (Thai: เครื่องดนตรีไทย, RTGS: Khrueang Dontri Thai) are the musical instruments used in the traditional and classical music of Thailand. They comprise a wide range of wind, string, and percussion instruments played by both the Thai majority as well as the nation's ethnic minorities.
Wong piphat khrueang ha (Thai: วงปี่พาทย์เครื่องห้า, Thai pronunciation: [woŋ pìːpʰâːt kʰrɯ̂əŋ hâː]) is an ensemble consisting of: 1 pi nai - bass oboe; 1 taphon - secondary beat; 1 ching - main beat; 1 khong wong yai - bass gongs hung in a nearly full circular track; 2 glong thad - Thai tympani
Mahori is a form of Thai classical music that has a long history in Thailand, dating back to at least the Ayutthaya period. [3]: 6 Although it was already a well-established form of music in Thailand during that time, in 1931, Prince Damrong, the author of the History of Thai Music had asserted that the Thai mahori was of Khmer origin and created by the ancient Khmer and later adopted and ...
"Bulan Loi Luean" (Thai: บุหลันลอยเลื่อน, pronounced [bū.lǎn lɔ̄ːj lɯ̂a̯n]) or "Bulan Luean Loi Fa" (บุหลันเลื่อนลอยฟ้า, [bū.lǎn lɯ̂a̯n lɔ̄ːj fáː]; lit. ' The Floating Moon on the Sky ') is a composition of Thai classical music traditionally credited to King ...
This instrument had an influence on the Thai classical instrument, known as Khim (ขิม). The yangqin was traditionally fitted with bronze strings (though older Chinese stringed instruments used silk strings, resulting in their, and the yangqin's, categorisation as a silk, or "si" instrument), which gave the instrument a soft timbre.
The khong wong lek (Thai: ฆ้องวงเล็ก, pronounced [kʰɔ́ːŋ woŋ lék]) is a gong circle used in Thai classical music. It has 18 tuned bossed gongs, and is smaller and higher in pitch than the khong wong yai .