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The next Uncon was a 3-day event held at the Melkweg in Amsterdam on 3–5 November 2006, with practically all Gong-related bands present: 'Classic' Gong (Allen, Smyth, Malherbe, Blake, Howlett, Travis, Taylor, plus the return of Steve Hillage and Miquette Giraudy), System 7, The Steve Hillage Band, Hadouk, Tim Blake and Jean-Philippe Rykiel ...
A tiger gong is a slightly descending or less commonly ascending gong, larger than an opera gong and with a less pronounced pitch shift. Most commonly 38 cm (15 in) but available down to 20 cm (8 in).
Gong are a Franco/British rock band founded by Australian vocalist/guitarist Daevid Allen and English vocalist Gilli Smyth in 1967. [1] The bands first recording line-up featured Allen and Smyth alongside bassist Christian Tritsch, drummer Rachid Houari and saxophonist/flautist Didier Malherbe. [2]
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.
Gong Gong Gong performed their first show at the closing party for Beijing venue XP in summer 2015. Bassist Joshua Frank was born in Montreal to Canadian diplomatic workers, and spent many years growing up in Beijing in the 1990s, before returning in 2006 and forming the band Hot & Cold with his brother.
Gong, Iran, a city; 21523 GONG, an asteroid discovered in 1998; Gong County, Henan, former name of Gongyi, a city in Henan, China; Gong County, Sichuan, a county in Sichuan, China; Wollongong, ("the Gong"), a seaside city located in the Illawarra region of New South Wales, Australia; Zhonggong, a pejorative name for Communist-controlled China ...
Gong Gong Quan (Maternal Grandfather Quan), a character from the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once; Alpha Gong Gong (Alpha-verse Grandfather), a character from the 2022 film Everything Everywhere All at Once; Gong Gong (Chinese: 公公), a character from the Singaporean TV show Happy Can Already! 4
By the time of the Zhou dynasty, the title gong was used alongside other familial titles for important members of the royal Ji family outside the immediate line of succession. The regents of the Cheng King—his uncles Dan and Shi and the important vassal Lü Shang—were known to history as Zhou Gong, Shao Gong, and Jiang Ziya.