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The Kong Mong or Kong Ming (Khmer: គងម៉ង់) is a Cambodian circular musical instrument. It is a single suspended and handheld gong-chime made of bronze or brass, held aloft with one hand, while the other beats it with the wooden mallet, "Onlung Kbal Sva". The gong has two holes drilled in it, with string passing through the holes to suspend it. It has a "boss", a raised and rounded section in the center, called the "Doh". The name comes from the sound that gong-chime produces when beaten: "Mong Mong". It is also described as a "bossed gong".

References

  1. ^ Khean, Yun; Dorivan, Keo; Lina, Y; Lenna, Mao. Traditional Musical Instruments of Cambodia (PDF). Kingdom of Cambodia: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. p. 172.
Traditional Cambodian musical instruments
Xylophones or roneat
Gong chimes
Gongs
Bells
Drums
Fiddles
Plucked: harps, zithers and lutes
Flutes
  • Khloy (khloy ek, khloy thom)
Oboes and free reed pipes
Horns and trumpets
Other
Traditional Laotian musical instruments
String
Plucked
Bowed
Struck
A khene player in Isan.
A khene player in Isan.
Wind
Flutes
Oboes
Free-reed pipes
Pan pipes
Percussion
Drums
  • kong (ກອງ)
Xylophones
Gongs
Others
  • xing
  • Hun
  • ko (ເກາະ)
  • kap
  • mai ngop ngèp (ໄມ້ງອບແງບ)
  • pông (ໂປງ)
  • sakmong (ສາກມອງ)
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