Characteristics of Thai music

Thailand is a country with a majority of Thais, and Thais are also integrated with the surrounding ethnic groups, so besides their own characteristics, all ethnic groups are also integrated with each other.

Because Thailand is a land of plenty in Southeast Asia, people believe in Hinayana Buddhism, know life is a happy place, and the local folk songs are also very nice. For example, the music of the Shan people in northern Thailand is in the same strain as that of the Miao people in China and the Shan people in Myanmar, and the Lusheng and bamboo musical instruments with 14 pipes are the favorites of the same people.

Love songs in Chiang Mai are very gentle and graceful. Maw Lum in northern Thailand is a kind of rap art, and it is also a very distinctive art. Southern Thailand is connected with Malaysia, and music, singing and dancing are no different from Malaysia. Mouth spring, nose flute, various bamboo musical instruments and drums are the main features.

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The instruments and ensembles of Thai royal music are different from those of the West, and are influenced by Indonesian Khmer and Gamelang.

The main percussion instruments are xylophone made of iron or wood, gongs, cymbals and cymbals of various sizes, as well as waist drums in Thailand, chubby magic single-sided drums (Taphon) in northern Thailand (such as Dholak in India), oblong Song Na drums (such as Dholki drums in India), pottery drums and Kalongka drums (.

All kinds of bamboo flutes, such as leather, six-hole seedlings, sheng, suona, erhu stringed instruments, three-stringed instruments, crocodile skin and dulcimer plucked instruments, and Muqin improved from Indian sausages.

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