Pi (double reed instrument)

Pi ( Thai ปิ่ ) is the generic term for several wind instruments that are played in the courtly and village music of Thailand and Laos . These mainly include double reed instruments with two or four reeds . These are divided into one-piece cylindrical double-reed instruments (short oboes) and two-part conical double-reed instruments (cone oboes).

The first group in Thailand includes three different sizes with a wooden play tube: the small pi nawk , the medium-sized pi Klang and the large and most widespread pi nai . They are related to the piri in Korea, the hichiriki in Japan, the duduk in Armenia and the mey in Turkey , among others .

The second group also includes three instruments: the small pi chanai , the medium pi chawa and the large pi mon . They have a wooden play tube and an attached bell metal and meet the widespread in Asia type to which the Indian shehnai and the Oriental surnai belong.

Pi is also often understood as the short form of pi nai . Corresponding wind instruments in Laos have the Thai names. In Cambodia , comparable oboes are called pey . Are not related to the double-reed instruments pi -called reed wind instruments , the North and Northeast Thailand ( Isan be played) in the village Popular music (including pi jum and pi saw of bamboo and which consists of a water buffalo horn pi sanai ).

literature

• David Morton, Terry E. Miller: Pī . In: Laurence Libin (Ed.): The Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Volume 4, Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2014, pp. 68f