Main article: Khruang Sai
The Khruang Sai orchestra combines some of the percussion of wind instruments
of the piphat with an expanded string section including the saw duang (a high-pitched two-string bowed lute), the
lower pitched saw u (bowed lute) and the
three-string jakhe (a plucked zither). In
addition to these instruments are the khlui (vertical fipple flute) in several sizes and
ranges, a goblet drum (tone-rumana)
and, occasionally, a small hammered Chinese dulcimer (khim). The khruang sai ensemble is primarily used for
instrumental indoor performances and for accompanying the Thai hoon grabok
(stick-puppet theater), a genre deeply influenced by Chinese puppetry styles.
Accordingly, the addition of Chinese-sounding string instruments in the khruang
sai ensemble is imagined, by the Thai, to be a reference to the probable Chinese
origins of this theater form.
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