musicThe drums
กลองแขก · klong khaek
A pair, and the pair is male and female.
Mahatee · CC BY 3.0What it is
Two long double-headed drums played with the hands, one pitched higher than the other. Thai names them tua phu and tua mia — the male and the female.
The long version
The two drums do not play the same thing. One keeps the frame and the other answers inside it, which is where the drive comes from as the fight speeds up.
Khaek is a Thai word for people from the west and south — Malay, Javanese, Indian, Middle Eastern — and the drum is named after where it came from rather than what it is. The sport's soundtrack is an import, and so is its oboe.
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Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | กลองแขก — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- กลองแขก — 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