Still on the Khmer music front.
Interestingly, we khmer call it phleng pinpeat (Pinpeat music), although Pin, once a lead instrument, has been absent from the Pinpeat ensemble (vong pinpeat) since 1500s. The modern ensemble of Pinpeat composes of five parts: Roneat (xylophone), Kongvong (circle of gongs), Sralai (quadruple-reed oboe), Sampho (small barrel drum), and skor thom (large barrel frum).
Ven. Chuon Nath's (Dictionary of Khmer 1967) was mistaken to say that Chapey was the Pin. Chapey is not Pin because Pin is a harp and Chapey is a lute. And Chapey is not a part of vong pinpeat.
Attached are relevant photos of modern pinpeat and old pin peat or pina vadya from:
http://www.khmerenaissance.info
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| Pin at Angkor |
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| Pin at Angkor |
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| Pinpeat orchestra (circa 1950) |
3 comments:
Bring them back...
On his way from China to Vernice by sea route,Marco Polo made a stop in Khmer port to get fresh water and supply. There he saw Khmer Pin and noticed the shape and how good sound it was. When he reached Europe and told the story to music maker, some new idea emerged. They built it horizontally on stand,boxed it up and add claviers or keyboard to it and called clavichord.But the original name PIN was sensational so the Italian add few alphabets to it and voila you get PIaNo or Piano.
10:43 AM, sound so interesting, but please give reference so we can use your comment as a reference document in future.
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