Thai music

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Independent Music from Independent Bands and Independent Musicians

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String

For Popular music like these, they were called as String or Pleng String. "เพลงสตริง"

The meaning of "string" it doesn't mean some kind of western music instruments.

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Phleng pheua chiwit (For life)

Music Instrument

Flute

Xylophone

Drum

String

Cymbal

Zether

Percussion

The mahori (Thai: มโหรี, pronounced [mahǒːriː], Khmer: មហោរី also spelled mohori) is a form of Thai and Cambodian classical ensemble which was traditionally played by women in the courts of both Central Thailand and Cambodia. It combines the xylophones and gong circles (but not the pi, or oboe) of the piphat with the strings of the khruang sai ensemble.

Historically the ensemble included smaller instruments more appropriate, it was thought, to the build of female performers. Today the ensemble employs regular sized instruments—a combination of instruments from both the khruang sai and piphat ensembles but excluding the loud and rather shrill oboe. The ensemble, which is performed in three sizes—small, medium and large—includes the three-string saw sam sai fiddle, a delicate-sounding, middle-range bowed lute with silk strings. Within the context of the mahori ensemble, the saw sam sai accompanies the vocalist, which plays a more prominent role in this ensemble than in any other classical Thai orchestra.

While Thai classical music was somewhat discouraged as being outmoded and backward-looking during Thailand's aggressively nationalistic modernization policies of the mid-twentieth century, the classical arts have benefited recently from increased governmental sponsorship and funding as well as popular interest as expressed in such films as Homrong: The Overture (2003), a popular fictionalized biography of a famous early 20th century ranat ek player and composer Luang Pradit Phairao.

Khrueang sai

Wong khrueang sai (Thai: วงเครื่องสาย, pronounced [woŋ kʰrɯ̂əŋ sǎːj], literally "string ensemble") is a musical ensemble in Thai classical music which consists primarily of string instruments. A typical khrueang sai ensemble features two two-string fiddles, one high and one low (saw duang and saw u), a three-string zither called jakhe, a vertical duct flute called khlui, hand drums, and various cymbals. Depending on the size of the ensemble, instruments may be doubled or left out. A three-string spike fiddle called saw sam sai may be added as well. The khim (hammered dulcimer) has become popular and is also used in this ensemble. In the 20th century, Western instruments such as the violin or organ have also occasionally been integrated into khrueang sai ensembles.

Wong khrueang sai diao (Thai: วงเครื่องสายเดี่ยว) is an ensemble consisting of one each of the following instruments:

ching - timekeeper of ensemble -- ฉิ่ง
saw duang -- ซอด้วง
saw u -- ซออู้
khlui -- ขลุ่ย
thon and rammana - secondary timekeeper --โทน รำมะนาด
jakhe --จะเข้

Pi Phat

Piphat is a kind of ensemble in the classical music of Thailand, which features wind and percussion instruments. It is considered the primary form of ensemble for the interpretation of the most sacred and "high-class" compositions of the Thai classical repertoire, including the Buddhist invocation,accompany traditional Thai theatrical and dance forms.

Piphat ensemble were included with these music instrument.