Thai music has been influenced by China and has various traditional ensembles. The Piphat ensemble uses wind, percussion, and string instruments and performs at funerals and ceremonies. It includes instruments like xylophones, gongs, flutes, zithers, and drums. The Thai Elephant Orchestra uniquely features elephants playing music. Mahori ensembles feature women musicians performing zithers, gongs, and fiddles. Khruang Sai combines Piphat instruments with strings. The document also mentions the Loi Loi Gratong lantern festival song and provides examples of different types of ensembles to watch.

1. MUSIC OF
THAILAND

2. CHINESE
INFLUENCE
Called the “land of the
free”, Thailand is said to be
the only nation in Southeast
Asia that has never been
ruled by a Western Colonial
power.

3. THAI
ELEPHANT
ORCHESTRA
The Thai Elephant
Orchestra is a musical
ensemble consisting of as
many as fourteen elephants.
The elephants paly music
essentially as conducted
improvisations.

4. LOI-LOI
GRATONG
It is the Thailand’s Lantern
Song during the LOI-LOI
KHRATONG FESTIVAL.

5. LOI-LOI
GRATONG LET’S SING IT!

6. PIPHAT
ENSEMBLE
This is a mid-sized orchestra
that is used to perform in funerals,
cremation ceremonies, traditional
dance drama, and shadow puppet
theater performances.

7. TYPESOF
MALLET
The type of mallets to be used
in performance are very important;
hard mallets for outdoor and
padded mallets for indoor.

8. Pi nai
This is a
woodwind
instrument

9. Ranat ek
This is a
xylophone

10. Khong wong
This is a
gong
KHONGWONG LEK has
sixteen tuned gongs.
KHONGWONGYAI has
eighteen tuned gongs.

11. Taphon
This is a
drum (hand)

12. Klong that
This is a
drum (stick)

13. Ching
These are
cymbals

14. PIPHAT
ENSEMBLE
LET’S WATCH
IT!

15. MAHORI
ENSEMBLE
This is a small ensemble of
women musicians who perform in
the courts of Central Thailand and
Cambodia.

16. Ranat ek
This is a
xylophone

17. Khong wong
This is a
gong
KHONGWONG LEK has
sixteen tuned gongs.
KHONGWONGYAI has
eighteen tuned gongs.

18. Chakhe
This is a
zither.

19. Saw sam sai
This is a
bowed string.

20. So duang
This is a
fiddle.

21. Thon
This is a
goblet-drum.

22. Rammana
This is a small
frame drum.

23. MAHORI
ENSEMBLE
LET’S WATCH
IT!

24. KHRUANG
SAI
ENSEMBLE
Winds and percussion
instruments of the Piphat
ensemble are combined in this
ensemble with some string
instrument

25. Chakhe
This is a
zither.

26. Saw sam sai
This is a
bowed string.

27. Saw duang
This is a
two-fiddle.

28. Khlui Phiang
This is a
flute.

29. Khlui Phiang
This is a
flute.
KHLUI PHIANG AW is the
most popular flute
KHLUI LIB is the smallest
flute.
KHLUI U is the largest
flute.

30. Thon
This is a
goblet-drum.

31. Chap
These are
cymbals.

32. Chap
These are
cymbals.
CHAP LEK has the
smaller cymbals.
KHLUI LIB has the
bigger cymbals.

33. Rammana
This is a small
frame drum.

34. KHRUANG
SAI
ENSEMBLE
LET’S WATCH
IT!

35. KING
BHUMIBOL
ADULYADEJ

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