sralai
Illustration — Two sralai instruments. At left the srali thom (thom means big). At right the srali touch or toch (touch means small). • Illustration — Sralai player showing his instrument, Siem Reap, 2024 The sralai is a Cambodian wind instrument that uses a quadruple reed to produce sound.
sralai
Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France · MúSIC, le musée des instruments de Céret (Pyrénées-Orientales) · CC BY 2.0
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Illustration — Two sralai instruments. At left the srali thom (thom means big). At right the srali touch or toch (touch means small). • Illustration — Sralai player showing his instrument, Siem Reap, 2024 The sralai is a Cambodian wind instrument that uses a quadruple reed to produce sound.
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The instrument is used in the pinpeat orchestra, where it is the only wind instrument. The set of quadruple reeds are made of palm leaf. The bore of the instrument is not evenly bored, but "slightly conical." Its cousin, the Western oboe, has a double reed and a conical bore. The pinpeat instruments tune to the sralai's pitch, and the player must learn circular breathing to play continuously without stopping for breath. The sralai is very similar in construction and playing technique to the Thai pi.
It is associated with Cambodia.
Khmer style gong at Khmer poeple culture museum in Tra Vinh Vietnam. Instruments are (clockwise from front) gong chimes kong von thom and kong toch, roneat ek bamboo xylophone, samphor drum, skor thom drum, sralai toch and thom oboes in glass case, ching or chap small cymbals, roneat dek metal xylophone, and roneat thung bamboo xylphone (half in edge of photo).
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Postcard 1662 by Pierre Dieulefils (mailed in Hanoi, 1907) depicting a Cambodian orchestra, labeled "Orchestre pour les dances royales" (Orchestra for royal dances), at Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Dieulefils was a French photographer who lived in Hanoi and took pictures in both Vietnam and Cambodia, and published his images in Hanoi as postcards. Instruments from the left: front row: samphor drum, ronea
Pierre Dieulefils · Postcards, in the collection of and scanned by User:Jacqke
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- 1.Sam, Sam-Ang. Sralai "oboe". umbc.edu.
- 2.Katherine Brisbane, Ravi Chaturvedi, Ramendu Majumdar, Chua Soo Pong, and Minoru Tanokura; eds. (2005). The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre: Volume 5: Asia/Pacific, unpaginated. Routledge. .
- 3.André de Quadros; ed. (2000). Many seeds, different flowers: the music education legacy of Carl Orff, p.43. "Four little tongues (reeds) of dried palm leaf are fastened to a brass tube with thread, and the reeds are placed completely in the mouth, with the tongue place under the reeds to control the opening." CIRCME. .
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