The ''ranat kaeo'' ( th, ระนาดแก้ว, ) is a
crystallophone
A crystallophone is a musical instrument that produces sound from glass.
One of the best known crystallophones is the glass harmonica, a set of rotating glass bowls which produce eerie, clear tones when rubbed with a wet finger. Musical glass ...
consisting of struck glass bars of varying length, used in the classical music of Thailand. It is usually played with a soft padded mallet.
Related instruments
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Xylophone
The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the ...
: an array of wooden bars of various lengths, struck. Greek for "wood sound"; "xylo" is Greek for "wood" and "phone" is Greek for "sound"
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Lithophone
A lithophone is a musical instrument consisting of a rock or pieces of rock which are struck to produce musical notes. Notes may be sounded in combination (producing harmony) or in succession (melody). It is an idiophone comparable to instrumen ...
: an array of rocks... "litho" is Greek for "rock".
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Pagophone
A hydraulophone is a tonal acoustic musical instrument played by direct physical contact with water (sometimes other fluids) where sound is generated or affected hydraulically."Fluid Melodies: The hydraulophones of Professor Steve Mann" In Wa ...
: an array of ice bars... "pago" is Greek for "ice".
External links
Glass Xylophone, ''PBSKids.org''. Accessed: February 4, 2017.
Plaque percussion idiophones
Crystallophones
Thai musical instruments
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