Brief History of the gong

Brief History of the gong The gong is one of the oldest musical instruments in the world. Archaeologists have unearthed gongs built almost four thousand years. No wonder if you hear a gong, because we believe that we hit our first mention of soul.The Gong in China in the 6th century. In these old documents say that the culture of another Chinese Central Asia, presented to them. Although we can not be sure that the culture has created the gong, he l? Safe to say, the sound resonated with the Chinese have done their own.The the Chinese gong gong used for many ceremonial functions. They were beaten to announce when the emperor or other political and religious figures have arrived. Military also used to gather the people for battle.The gong gong and then his music has migrated from China to Java - the word gong is Javanese in origin - and in Indonesia were established by the 9th century, were in a Javanese gong a new way, which was very different from large flat Chinese gong, used deep-oriented wheels raised with a button in the middle. Indonesians also developed a style of play many of their gongs at a time, into a percussion orchestra called gamelan. In the gamelan, the gongs are usually of different sizes, each tailored to a specific pitch.Gongs slowly migrate from Asia to Africa? - What did not? T have the Inteet and aircraft and to expedite things at the time - and finally arrived in Europe in the eighteenth century, the style of gong that Europeans have seen and heard has been great Chinese Gong indeterminate height as you've probably seen in the back of orchestras.Though now part of the weste percussion orchestras, the first to include a symphony orchestra was Mirabeau, written by French composer François Gossec in 1791. Debussy has become the first major composer to integrate the sound in his symphonies.Andrew Borakove is a writer and an aficionado of the gong. He also holds gongs Unlimited The only store dedicated exclusively to the gong.