| Name | Image | Description | Video |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chapey Dang Veng |  | The chapei dong veng is a two-string guitar with long neck from Cambodia. It is a plucked guitar with frets. | |
| Kong Thom |  | The kong thom, or Kong vong thom, is a large gong circle. It plays a melodic line in the Cambodian pinpeat ensemble almost identical to that of the roneat thung (large xylophone). The kong thom dwells more steadily on the pulse without pulling or delaying the beat (melody). The player uses soft mallets for indoor performance, hard ones for outdoors. The gong circle-maker creates sixteen bossed gongs made of copper with bronze admixture. He suspends them on rattan frames in a circle around the player. A small gong circle is called kong vong toch or kong toch. | |
| Roneat |  | The roneat is a musical instrument used in the traditional and classical musics of Cambodia. It is used by both the Khmer majority as well as the nation's ethnic minorities. The roneat is a trough-resonated keyboard percussion instrument; generally played with two mallets. Roneat ek is a smaller xylophone. Roneat thung is a larger xylophone (see image). Roneat dek is a smaller metallophone. Roneat thong is a larger metallophone. It is no longer used. | |
| Sampho |  | The sampho is a small barrel drum indigenous to Cambodia. It has two heads and is played with both hands. The player of the sampho leads the pinpeat (a classical ensemble of wind and percussion instruments), setting the tempo and beat. The sampho is made by hollowing out a single block of wood into a barrel shape. Both ends are covered with calfskin, tightened by strips of gut or rattan. One head of the drum is larger than the other to allow differing tones. The maker "tunes" each head by applying a circle of paste made of rice and ashes. | |
| Takhe |  | Takhe (also called krapeu) is a plucked musical instrument from Cambodia. It is a crocodile-shaped fretted floor zither with three strings. | |
| Thon |  | The thon is a goblet-shaped drum from Cambodia. It is played with the hands. | |
| Tro |  | Tro is the generic name for traditional bowed string instruments in Cambodia. Instruments in this family include the two-stringed tro u, tro sau toch, tro sau thom and tro che, as well as the three-stringed tro Khmer spike fiddle. |
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