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...instruments are evident in the celestial orchestras seen in Buddhist iconography. One apparent accommodation between old Chinese and West Asian tradition is the fangxiang, a set of 16 iron slabs suspended in a wooden frame in the manner of the old sets of tuned stones. Gongs related to the present-day Chinese ...
development of lithophones
Indonesia and Indochina have metallophones constructed like xylophones, of which they are indeed metal counterparts. But in China the fangxiang, with its 16 bars, is a metal imitation of the lithophone. Among important components of the gamelan are the saron, a trough metallophone depicted as early as about 800 ce on...
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