Roneat thong

Female musician playing roneat dek (រនាតដែក) or roneat thong (រនាតថោង) metallophone at the Cambodian court, c. 1860s or 1870s. Image from French photographer Émile Gsel (1838-1879).

The roneat thong (រនាតថោង) is a Cambodian metallophone, similar to the roneat dek.[1] Both use as their standard, 21 "individually toned", "trough shaped" soundbars.[1]

The two instruments use different metals for their chime-bars.[1] The roneat thong uses brass, which might also be bronzed or made scarlet or gold.[1] In contrast, the roneat dek uses tone bars of blackened iron.[1] The original "standard" for the Cambodian metallphones was the iron bars, but in later times the softer, easier to work metal came to be used.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "ឧបករណ៍​ភ្លេង រនាត​ថោង និង​រនាតដែក [Devices, brackets, and armature]". choukmer.wordpress.com. Retrieved 4 October 2018. Thong gamelan and iron gamelan is a tonal gamelan 21 same trough-shaped purely individual tonal sound the same but called gamelan Thong from gamelan tonality made of bronze colored scarlet color analogous gold, while iron gamelan gamelan is a tonal solid iron with black opaque. zero width space character in |title= at position 7 (help)

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