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Skor daey

Two instruments being played by Cambodian musicians. The drum is one of the Cambodian goblet drums (skor daey, skor kar, skor arak or another). The fiddle is a tro (either the Tro sau thom or Tro sau toch).

A salesman with goblet drums in Cambodia.

Two drums used in both Cambodia and Thailand. Left is the thon (Thai: โทน). On the right is the ramama (Thai: รำมะนาa).

The skor daey (ស្គរដៃ "hand drum" or "clay drum") is a short goblet drum from Cambodia, approximately 40 centimeters tall and 15 centimeters wide at the top.^[1]^[2]^[3] There are two common goblet drums there, the skor chhaiyam (Khmer: ស្គរឆៃយ៉ាំ), a very long goblet drum, resembling some from Burma, and the skor daey.

Alternative spellings in English include skor dai (hand) and skor dei (clay, also alternative in Khmer: ស្គរដី). Other Khmer names included skor arak, skor kar (ស្គរការ), skor ayai (ស្គរអាយ៉ៃ។).^[4] The name skor areak or skor arak or skor aaroksa (Khmer:ស្គរអារក្ស) links this variant to the Arak music it is used to play.^[2] Skor kar linked it to kar boran music for weddings, where two drums are used, representing male and female.^[5] Skor ayai refers to ayai repartee singing, in which a man and woman alternate quick, witty comments or replies back and forth, accompanied by an ensemble.^[5]^[1] The small goblet drums may also be called skor toch, (Khmer: ស្គរតូច), literally small drum, but that may be a description and not a name.

Another small goblet drum used in Cambodia is the thon, a Thai name: โทน. Compared to the Skor daey, it "has a shallower head and a slimmer body."^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b Miller, Terry E.; Williams, Sean (25 September 2017). The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Southeast Asia. Routledge. ISBN 9781351544207.
^ ^a ^b Kersalé Patrick. "Long goblet drum - skor chaiyam". soundsofangkor.org/. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
^ Khean, Yun; Dorivan, Keo; Lina, Y; Lenna, Mao. Traditional Musical Instruments of Cambodia (PDF). Kingdom of Cambodia: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. pp. 246–247.
^ Vanna, Ly (September 2002). "Cambodian Percussion". leisurecambodia.com. Retrieved 10 October 2018.
^ ^a ^b Vanna, Ly (September 2002). "Cambodian Percussion". leisurecambodia.com. Retrieved 20 June 2019. [tabloid; volume 2, number 9].
^ "The Flute Player". pbs.org. Retrieved 10 October 2018. Thaun, a goblet drum, is similar to the skor arakk, except it has a shallower head and a slimmer body...used as part of a two-piece drum set in the mohori ensemble... [From a Public Broadcasting Service webpage about the 2003 movie by Jocelyn Glatzer called the Flute Player, about a man who returns to Cambodia to teach the Cambodian flute.]