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New percussion instruments are evident in the celestial orchestras seen in Buddhist iconography. One apparent accommodation between old Chinese and West Asian tradition is the fang-hsiang, a set of 16 iron slabs suspended in a wooden frame in the manner of the old sets of tuned stones. Knobless gongs related to the present-day Chinese lo seem to have entered the Chinese musical...
Indonesia and Indochina have metallophones constructed like xylophones, of which they are indeed metal counterparts. But in China the fangxiang, with its 16 bars, is a metal imitation of the lithophone. Among important components of the gamelan are the saron, a trough metallophone depicted as early as about ad...
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