Bronzes of various metallurgical properties are widely used in struck idiophones around the world, notably bells, singing bowls, gongs, cymbals and other idiophones from Asia.

They were first used to signal peasant workers in from the fields as some gongs are loud enough to be heard from up to 50 miles away.

Traditionally, chau gongs were used to clear the way for important officials and processions, much like a police siren today.

Sets of smaller, tuned nipple gongs can be used to play a tune.

Nipple gongs are used in Chinese temples for worship.

Safety was further improved by the development of more powerful lamps and through the replacement by foghorns of the gongs previously used as fog signals.

Bell bronze, also known as bell metal, is the traditional alloy used for fine cymbals, many gongs, and, as the name suggests, bells.

Only fresh water, flowers, and incense are used in worship ; no bells or gongs accompany prayers.

Because kulintang-like ensembles extended over various groups with various languages, the term used for the horizontal set of gongs varied widely.

Kulintang gongs are made using the cire perdue method, a lost-wax process used for casting the individual gongs.

It ’ s likely the earliest gongs used among the indigenous populace had no recreational value but were simply used for making signals and sending messages.

Based on the etymology, two routes have been proposed as the route for the kulintang to Mindanao: One from Sunda, through Banjermasin, Brunei and the Sulu Archipelago, a route where the word “ kulintangan ” is commonly used for the horizontal row of gongs ; The other from Sunda, thru, Timor, Sulawesi, Moluccas and Mindanao where the word kolintang / kulintang is commonly seen.

Rather, the term percussion mallet is applied very widely, including for example tympani sticks and even drum sticks and the beaters used for untuned gongs.

Likely, the term was used generically to describe Indonesian high-copper brass items, including gamelan gongs.

The large slit gongs which symbolize Vanuatu belong to these traditional instruments ; they were most often used as musical drums to accompany certain dances, but also sometimes – though seldom – as a ritual means of communication ; although widespread throughout Vanuatu, they are used vertically only in central areas of the archipelago ( mainly on Ambrym ).

Audible fog signals have been used in one form or another for hundreds of years, initially simply bells or gongs struck manually.

In Java, bell metal mixtures including tin were used not only for the manufacture of figurines, objet d ' art, sculptures and household goods for the wealthy, they were employed for the gongs, saron, demung and numerous other struck glockenspiel-like instruments of the Javanese gamelan ensemble.

It is still used, in combination with sheng mouth organs, gongs, drums, and sometimes other instruments, in wedding and funeral processions.

It has no effect without other gongs or instruments, but it is used in the traditional dances to keep timing.

It is also used in other regional opera genres and ensembles, and is one of the four major instruments ( drum, large and small gongs and cymbals ) in the jubilant luogu ( 锣鼓 ) ( gong and drum ) music.

In a recently-redesigned type, the number of gongs was increased, ranging from 29 to 38, and two mallets with either hard or soft tips are used for different tonal effects.

Su's tower featured a rotating gear wheel with 133 clock jack manikins who were timed to rotate past shuttered windows while ringing gongs and bells, banging drums, and presenting announcement plaques.

There is speculation that some time in the 1st century BC ( during the Western Han Dynasty ), the beating of drums and gongs were mechanically-driven by working automatically off the rotation of the road-wheels.

Kolintang sets of bossed kettle gongs were once played in Gorontalo, North Sulawesi long ago but that has all but disappeared, replaced by what locals are presently familiar with — a slab-key instrument known as a kolintang.

It seemed very important if we were to be quite like puppets — Ubu Roi is a play that was never written for puppets, but for actors pretending to be puppets, which is not the same thing — for us to have carnival music, and the orchestral parts have been allotted to various brasses, gongs and speaking-trumpet horns that we haven't had time to collect.

Her dances were often accompanied by world music and non-Western instrumentation, such as fifes and primarily percussions, bells, including the gongs and drums from India, Thailand, Africa, and China, contrasted with silence.

All these gongs appear to be Burmese in origin, and therefore, it is tempting to conclude that Mizo got them from the Burmese while they were living in the Kabaw Valley during 9th to 13th century AD.

Repeater watches were much harder to make than repeater clocks ; fitting the bells, wire gongs and complicated striking works into a pocketwatch movement was a feat of fine watchmaking.

Whereas repeating watches made in the eighteenth century struck a bell mounted in the back of the case, during the nineteenth century wire gongs were invariably employed as they took up less space.

* Radio AuditionsHosted by Johnny McMahon, Radio Auditions was an extraordinarily long-lived talent show in which participants were awarded up to three " gongs ".

In Indonesian gamelan ensembles, some bossed gongs are deliberately made to generate in addition a beat note in the range from about 1 to 5 Hz.

Coil made use of gongs and bullroarers in an attempt to conjur " Martian ," " homosexual energy ".

Some of the finest traditional gongs and china-type cymbals, and nearly all zills, are made from brass.

A very few specialised high-quality cymbals are also made from nickel silver, as are some top-quality gongs tending to the more modern and exotic sounds.

Unlike cymbals, some gongs are made from several different metals fused together.

Parts of some traditional gongs, notably the bosses of some " nipple " gongs, are made from iron based alloys.

The two million people attending beat gongs and made other noise and shouted " Change the President, save Taiwan " at 3: 20 PM, in reference to the election date.

Traditionally they are made from bronze but due to the shortage of bronze after World War II, and the subsequent use of scrap metal, brass gongs with shorter decaying tones have become commonplace.

Recent attempts have been made to transcribe the music using cipher notation, with gongs indicated by a numbering system for example, starting from 1 to 8 with the lowest gong starting at number 1 for an eight gong kulintang set.

Folk musicians also use gongs made from tree trunks, bones, rook jaw, triangle, cymbals, bottles filled with water, and xylophones.

Barbara Benary while not a student of Murphy made a gamelan following directions in Murphy's thesis, and then went on to make more instruments of her own design, notably giant bar-and-resonator gongs, using one-gallon paint cans to build the tubes.

The ensemble is made up of a series of drums and gongs, including the centerpieces, which are the hne ( double reed pipe ) and pat waing or hsaing wan (, set of 21 tuned drums in a circle ).

Paiste gongs are made from nickel silver.

Paiste also made a line of tuned gongs and a tuned gong play that are now discontinued.

The gong circle-maker creates sixteen bossed gongs made of copper with bronze admixture.

The drums are made from a hollow tree trunk with membrane made from cow hide and the gongs, made of brass, are very similar to those found in Myanmar.

Other attractions include tours to nearby Rungus longhouses, where traditional brass gongs are made, and where honey is produced and to Tanjung Simpang Mengayau, the northernmost point on the island of Borneo.

* Idiophones: Self-sounding and made of resonant materials – Kakwa, Nanggilsi, Guridomik, Kamaljakmora, all kinds of gongs, Rangkilding, Rangbong, Nogri etc.