Modern form of tube zither among highland minority groups in Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand. It may be held against the chest. This particular instrument is the kong ring គង់រេង, which can substitute for a chorus of gongs, quietly.
String instrument
Classification
String instrument
Chordophone
Plucked string instrument
Bowed string instrument
Percussion stringed instrument
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
List of chordophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number (312, simple chordophone, tube zither
312.11 tube zither, whole, idiochord
312.12 tube zither, whole, heterochord
312.121.71 heterochord tube zither, whole, no extra resonator, played with bow
312.21 half-tube zithers, idiochord
312.22 half-tube zithers, heterochord)
Developed
Developed in South Asia and/or Southeast Asia. Variation visible in art and literature for more than 1000 years.
Decay
bamboo strings, fast decay
metal strings, decay is slower
The tube zither is a stringed musical instrument in which a tube functions both as an instrument's neck and its soundbox.[1] As the neck, it holds strings taut and allows them to vibrate. As a soundbox, it modifies the sound and transfers it to the open air. The instruments are among the oldest of chordophones, being "a very early stage" in the development of chordophones,[2] and predate some of the oldest chordophones, such as the Chinese Se, zithers built on a tube split in half.[3] Most tube zithers are made of bamboo, played today in Madagascar, India, Southeast Asia and Taiwan. Tube zithers made from other materials have been found in Europe and the United States, made from materials such as cornstalks and cactus.
There are both round and half tube zithers, as well as tube zithers with the strings cut out of the bamboo body, idiochordic, or, rarely, have separate strings, heterochordic.
^Sachs, Curt (1940). The History of Musical Instruments, p.463. W. W. Nortan & Company, Inc. ISBN 0-393-02068-1
^Koehn, Christian D. A Bowed Bamboo Tube Zither From Southeast Asia(PDF) (Thesis). International Symposium on Musical Acoustics (ISMA) edition 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
^Sachs, Kurt (1940). History of Musical Instruments. New York: W. W. Norton & Co. p. 186. ...a Chinese tradition, according to which the Cheng was originally made of bamboo.
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