page_title: Sneng
hierarchical_section_title: Sneng
caption_attribution_description: English: A Cambodian musical instrument called a Sneng ស្នែង, made from a cow's horn, sits in front of a water buffalo horn. Bottom right of image was modified to remove commercial logo from YouTube.
context_page_description: The Sneng is a reed aerophone, made from an ox horn or water buffalo horn and producing sound with a single free reed. Two different styles exist. The end-blown instrument has the tip of the horn cut off, with the reed inserted into that end. The tip then functions as the mouthpiece to blow a single note. The side-blown instrument has a hole in the side of the instrument's body, where a bamboo free-reed and a mouthpiece are fastened with wax. The reed there can be either blown or sucked to produce a tone. Each end of the instrument has holes that function as fingerholes to change the notes, tuned a fourth apart. The instrument was capable of two or three notes. The large hole can be covered with the player's palm, the small hole with a finger or thumb. The instrument is loud enough to call across a distance and has been used in rural environments to signal mealtimes, give warning, call for help or indicate a need to return to the village. It was also used to call domestic elephants in from the field, and hunters communicated with it.
context_section_description: The Sneng (Khmer: ស្នែង) is a reed aerophone, made from an ox horn or water buffalo horn and producing sound with a single free reed. Two different styles exist. The end-blown instrument has the tip of the horn cut off, with the reed inserted into that end. The tip then functions as the mouthpiece to blow a single note. The side-blown instrument has a hole in the side of the instrument's body, where a bamboo free-reed and a mouthpiece are fastened with wax. The reed there can be either blown or sucked to produce a tone. Each end of the instrument has holes that function as fingerholes to change the notes, tuned a fourth apart. The instrument was capable of two or three notes. The large hole can be covered with the player's palm, the small hole with a finger or thumb. The instrument is loud enough to call across a distance and has been used in rural environments to signal mealtimes, give warning, call for help or indicate a need to return to the village. It was also used to call domestic elephants in from the field, and hunters communicated with it.
caption: A side-blown Cambodian musical instrument called a Sneng ស្នែង, made from a cow's horn, sits in front of an end-blown sneng, made from a water buffalo horn. The side-blown instrument's mouthpiece is visible on the side of the horn.
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