musicThe time
ฉิ่ง · ching
Two small cups of bronze. They decide where the beat is.
What it is
A pair of thick bronze cups on a cord, struck together. Closed, they say ching; let ring, they say chap, and the two syllables are the name and the notation.
The long version
The smallest instrument in the band and the one that is in charge. Thai classical time is counted off the ching, not the drum: the closed stroke and the open stroke mark the weak and the strong, and every other player is hanging off them.
Inference — this is why a stadium band can accelerate without falling apart. The tempo is being carried by two pieces of metal that cannot get tired.
Connected to
- The band The band.
Named here by
- The band The time.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | ฉิ่ง — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- ฉิ่ง — Wikipedia (th)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there