Sneng

Two different types of sneng exist: • The more common one is a side-blown instrument with a rectangular hole on the side of the horn, where a bamboo single-free-reed mouthpiece is fastened with wax. The reed there can be either blown or sucked to produce a tone. Both ends of the horn are open and function as finger holes to change the pitch, the pointed end covered by the left index finger and the wide end covered by the right palm. This type is capable of two notes, tuned a fourth apart. • Another type is an end-blown instrument with the tip of the horn cut off and without the bamboo mouthpiece, like the conventional blowing horn. It is less common because it produces only one note.

• Name — Sneng ស្នែង • Names — saamleng sneng • Classification — side-blown: woodwind end-blown: brass • Hornbostel Sachs — side-blown: 422.33 end-blown: 423.121.21 • Hornbostel Sachs Desc — side-blown: horns with free reed end-blown: labrosones with curved tubes without mouthpiece • Related — *Abeng (Maroon people) (Jamaica) • Gweh (Karen people) • Koy (Thailand) • Kwai (Myanmar)) • Pepa (Assam) • Pung Sing Nepal • Tơ đjếp (Vietnam) • Illustration — A side-blown sneng plays, demonstrating the multiple tones possible from the instrument. Side blown instruments may have two fingerholes, one on each end of the instrument. End-blown instruments have no fingerholes and only one note.