{
 "id": "sarama",
 "type": "music",
 "names": {
  "name": "The band",
  "th": "วงปี่กลอง",
  "rtgs": "wong pi klong",
  "said": "Four instruments, live, and they speed up when it matters.",
  "said_th": "เครื่องดนตรีสี่ชิ้น บรรเลงสด และเร่งขึ้นเมื่อถึงเวลา",
  "aliases": [
   "sarama",
   "เพลงมวย"
  ]
 },
 "region": [
  "thailand"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "instrument": "ensemble"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Every stadium fight in Thailand is played live by a small band: an oboe, a pair of drums and a pair of hand cymbals, sitting at the ring apron.",
  "story": "The music is not atmosphere. It is a clock and a commentary.\n\nIt starts slow under the wai kru, holds a walking pace through the early rounds, and accelerates — the drums first, then the oboe climbing — as the fight goes on. By the fifth round a good band is playing at a speed that makes two tired men look faster than they are, and the crowd noise is timed to it.\n\n*Inference —* if you cannot follow the scoring, follow the band. It is a reliable guide to where a stadium thinks the fight is, and it is free."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "ไฟต์บนเวทีในเมืองไทยทุกไฟต์มีวงเล็ก ๆ บรรเลงสด ปี่หนึ่งเลา กลองหนึ่งคู่ และฉิ่งหนึ่งคู่ นั่งอยู่ริมเวที",
  "story": "ดนตรีไม่ใช่บรรยากาศ มันคือนาฬิกาและคำบรรยาย\n\nเริ่มช้าใต้การไหว้ครู คงจังหวะเดินไว้ในยกต้น ๆ แล้วเร่งขึ้น กลองก่อน ปี่ไต่ตาม เมื่อไฟต์ดำเนินไป พอถึงยกห้า วงที่ดีจะเล่นในความเร็วที่ทำให้คนเหนื่อยสองคนดูเร็วกว่าที่เป็น และเสียงคนดูก็จับจังหวะนั้น\n\n*อนุมาน —* ถ้าตามคะแนนไม่ทัน ให้ตามวงดนตรี มันเป็นเครื่องชี้ที่เชื่อถือได้ว่าสนามคิดว่าไฟต์อยู่ตรงไหน และฟรี"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "pi-chawa",
   "as": "The oboe.",
   "rel": "music"
  },
  {
   "to": "klong-khaek",
   "as": "The drums.",
   "rel": "music"
  },
  {
   "to": "ching",
   "as": "The time.",
   "rel": "music"
  },
  {
   "to": "wai-kru-ram-muay",
   "as": "What it opens under.",
   "rel": "ritual"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:thwp-ป-ชวา",
  "s:thwp-มวยไทย"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:thwp-ป-ชวา"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "medium",
 "tags": [
  "watching",
  "beginner"
 ],
 "schema": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "images": [
  {
   "file": "sarama/sarama-piphat-mon.jpg",
   "source": "commons",
   "title": "File:Piphat Mon.jpg",
   "url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0b/Piphat_Mon.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=original",
   "page_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APiphat_Mon.jpg",
   "license": "CC BY 3.0",
   "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/",
   "author": "Mahatee",
   "credit": "Own work",
   "alt": "Thailand: Mon Pi Paat Band Rayong Witthayakhom School",
   "date": "",
   "primary": true,
   "sha256": "8af946af14de73c401ff8c513e81fc816d6fc39ea490777f5cfeff1ff7998bb4"
  }
 ],
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "wai-kru-ram-muay",
   "type": "ritual",
   "name": "The dance before the fight",
   "as": "What is played under it."
  },
  {
   "from": "ching",
   "type": "music",
   "name": "The time",
   "as": "The band."
  },
  {
   "from": "klong-khaek",
   "type": "music",
   "name": "The drums",
   "as": "The band."
  },
  {
   "from": "klong-sabatchai",
   "type": "music",
   "name": "The victory drum",
   "as": "The other band, at the ring."
  },
  {
   "from": "pi-chawa",
   "type": "music",
   "name": "The oboe",
   "as": "The band it leads."
  },
  {
   "from": "fight-night",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "What an evening is shaped like",
   "as": "What you are listening to."
  }
 ]
}