Close-up image of a musician playing the roneat ek. The roneat ek is a type of wooden xylophone that is played in Pin Peat and Mohori ensembles. The roneat ek consists of a series of wooden bars, each of varying lengths, arranged in a wooden frame. The musician uses mallets to create distinctive ringing tones.
Master musician Yinn Pon plays the flute (left) while another musician strikes small hand cymbals (center) and another prepares to pluck the khim, a flat, trapezoidal-shaped string instrument encased in a wooden body with metal strings stretched across its surface.
Master musician Ho Chan teaches three teenage students, two girls and one boy, how to play the roneat ek, a wooden xylophone-like instrument, as part of a class organized by the United Cambodian Community. In the photo, Master Ho (right) holds the hands of male student and helps guide the mallet to the wooden keys, while the other two student play along.
Master musician Ho Chan (far left) plays the drum skor while his young students play the flute and roneat ek, Cambodian xylophone, at Cambodian New Year event in the park.
