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Proprietary Signature Bronze: A patented cymbal alloy introduced in 1989, with the Signature line. According to the patent, this alloy consists of phosphor bronze with a 14.7% to 15.1% tin content by weight. It has been claimed by Paiste to be the first bronze alloy specifically developed for cymbals.
There is a minority view that the word "bronze" should be reserved for two-phase alloys, which may be their usage here. Unlike cymbals, some gongs are made from several different metals fused together. Many different metals have been used. Parts of some traditional gongs, notably the bosses of some "nipple" gongs, are made from iron based alloys.
A chau gong is made of copper-based alloy, bronze, or brass. It is almost flat except for the rim, which is turned up to make a shallow cylinder. On a 25-centimetre (10 in) gong, for example, the rim extends about 1 cm (1 ⁄ 2 in) perpendicular to the surface. The main surface is slightly concave when viewed from the direction to which the rim ...
A gong chime is a generic term for a set of small, high-pitched bossed pot gongs. The gongs are ordinarily placed in order of pitch, with the boss upward on cords held in a low wooden frame. The frames can be rectangular or circular (the latter are sometimes called "gong circles"), and may have one or two rows of gongs.
Xiaoluo (小锣) – a small flat gong whose pitch rises when struck with the side of a flat wooden stick; Yueluo (月锣) – small pitched gong held by a string in the palm of the hand and struck with a small stick; used in Chaozhou music; Jingluo (镜锣) – a small flat gong used in the traditional music of Fujian
Sichuan naonian luogu (四川闹年锣鼓) - gong and drum music performed for the celebration of the Chinese New Year in Sichuan Province; Sunan shifan luogu (苏南十番锣鼓, see shifan luogu; Tonggu ensemble (铜鼓) - bronze drum ensemble (cf. Dong Son drums) Zhedong luogu (浙东锣鼓) - gong and drum music of eastern Zhejiang Province
The bonang is an Indonesian musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan. [1] It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called "kettles" or "pots") placed horizontally onto strings in a wooden frame (rancak), either one or two rows wide. All of the kettles have a central boss, but around it the lower-pitched ones have a flattened head ...
Sets of five bronze gong-chimes and a gong making up the totobuang ensembles of Buru island in Central Maluku have also come to disuse. [23] Kolintang sets of bossed kettle gongs were once played in Gorontalo , North Sulawesi long ago but that has all but disappeared, replaced by what locals are presently familiar with—a slab-key instrument ...