Khmer musical instruments

Flutes

• Khloy - vertical duct flute made of bamboo, hardwood, or plastic, with buzzing membrane
  • Khloy ek - smaller in size
  • Khloy thom - larger in size

    Free-reed

    
    
    
    • Sneng - water buffalo or ox horn with a single free reed
    • Pey pok - free-reed pipe
    • Ploy (also called m'baut) - mouth organ with gourd body and five to seven bamboo pipes; used by Mon-Khmer-speaking upland ethnic minorities
    • Ken/Khaen - free-reed mouth organ used in northwestern Cambodia
    • Angkuoch (also called kangkuoch) - jaw harp made of bamboo or metal

    Kaois

    
    
    
    • Sralai - quadruple-reed oboe
      • Sralai toch - small quadruple-reed oboe
      • Sralai thom - large quadruple-reed oboe
    • Pey ar (also spelled beyaw, and also called bey prabauh) - oboe with cylindrical bore

    Horns

    • Saing - conch shell horn

    Other

    • Slek - tree leaf used as a wind instrument
    
    
    
    

    String

    Bowed

    
    

    A pair of tro
    • Tro - fiddle
      • Tro Khmer - three-string vertical spike fiddle with coconut shell body; used in classical music
      • Tro che - high-pitched two-string vertical fiddle, with face covered with snakeskin
      • Tro sau toch - two-string vertical fiddle with hardwood body; used in classical music
      • Tro sau thom - two-string vertical fiddle with hardwood body; used in classical music
      • Tro u (also spelled tro ou) - lower two-string vertical fiddle with a coconut shell body, with face covered with calfskin or snakeskin; used in classical music

    Plucked

    
    

    A krapeu (takhe)
    • Chapey dang veng - plucked fretted lute
    • Krapeu (also called takhe) - crocodile-shaped fretted floor zither with three strings
    • Kse diev (also spelled se diev, and also called khse muoy) - chest-resonated stick zither)

    Struck

    • Khim - hammered dulcimer

    Percussion

    Drums

    
    
    

    A thon
    • Sampho - barrel drum, played with the hands
    • Skor ( (also spelled sko)
      • Skor thom - pair of large barrel drums, played with sticks
    • Thon - goblet-shaped drum, played with the hands
    • Rumana - frame drum, played with the hands

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    Gong chimes

    • Kong vong toch (also called kong toch) - small gong circle
    • Kong vong thom (also called kong thom) - large gong circle

    Keyboard

    
    
    
    • Roneat - trough-resonated keyboard percussion instrument; generally played with two mallets and used in Khmer classical and theater music
      • Roneat ek - smaller xylophone
      • Roneat thung - larger xylophone
      • Roneat dek - smaller metallophone
      • Roneat thong larger metallophone; no longer used

    
    

    Gongs

    
    • Kong vong - single suspended gong

    
    

    
    

    
    

    
    

    Clappers

    • Krap - pair of flat bamboo or hardwood sticks

    Cymbals

    • Ching (ឈិង) - pair of small cymbals used to mark time
    • Chap - pair of flat cymbals

    Woodblocks

    • Pan - woodblock
    • Nay pay - Pellow
    • Sindang - Small Size Woodblocks
    
    
    ឧបករណ៍ ពិណបុរាណខ្មែរ