khene
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khene (plural khenes)
- (music) A traditional musical instrument of Laos, being a type of bamboo mouth organ.
- 1951, Norman Lewis, A Dragon Apparent, Eland, published 2003, page 296:
- There are processions led by dancers with castanets and accompanied by musicians playing the Kène.
- 1997, Dolly Brittan, The Hmong, Rosen Publishing, published 1997, page 32:
- The khene was once used to call warriors to fight. Now it is used for ceremonies.
- 2000, Simon Broughton et al., The Rough Guide to World Music, Rough Guides, page 171:
- The Lao khaen, however, is the most sophisticated of all the bamboo mouth organs – it takes great skill to play it properly.
- 2001, Mervyn Brown, War in Shangri-La, Radcliffe, published 2001, page 155:
- I then suggested that he should play a tune on the khène while I improvised an accompaniment on the ukelele.
Translations[edit]
traditional musical instrument of Laos
See also[edit]
- kèn (traditional shawm of Vietnam)