Thread: Classical Thai Musical Instruments

Thai Musical Instruments and lets start with the drum, these 2 drums were at Wat Paknam, my son plays quite a few of the old classical instruments, or used to in his younger days, now his interests tend to be in women and women, kids today, you can't starve them to death.

Anyway a couple of nice old traditional drums, probably made out of teak wood, regardless it has a nice graining to it, probably too nice to actually risk damaging them by playing them, but thats like owning a top end sports car in the UK and only using it on days it doesn't rain.



My sons mini drum is based on a coconut, not quite in league with these beautiful drums.



Thailand having these OTOP villages even has a few drum making villages where you can get a custom drum built or just buy a ready made one.

OTOP = One Tambon One Product

In between Kanchanaburi and Suphanburi is a Drum Making Village (Drum making Village/Kanchanaburi/SuphanBuri), would this drum be large enough Sir?



Also in Ang Thong drums like this are made and sold.
Ang Thong Drum Making Village (Ang Thong - Drum Making Village)



The Khene is a Lao musical instrument I believe, but you see many here in Thailand being used by the beggars, taking a wild guess I would say both countries would claim it was theirs, it is similar to a mouth organ but made of bamboo.

So what other Thai Classical Musical Instruments are there?