musicThe oboe
ปี่ชวา · pi chawa
Its reed is four folded leaves of an old palm.
Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0What it is
A double-reed pipe in two pieces — a bored body with seven finger holes and a thumb hole, and a flared bell — with a reed made of four folded pieces of mature palm leaf.
The long version
Chawa means Java. The Thai article's reading is that the pipe arrived in Thailand at the same time as the klong khaek, the drums it still plays with — two imports that came in as a pair and stayed a pair.
And the pipe is not only a boxing instrument. The article lists it in the bua loi ensemble, in the pi phat nang hong ensemble, in the string ensemble that takes its name, and then, at the end of the list, for krabi-krabong dance and for boxing. The same reed plays a funeral and a fight.
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| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | ปี่ชวา — Wikipedia (th) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- ปี่ชวา — 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