Temple block

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• temple block — temple block, any one of various hollowed out wooden vessels of different sizes and pitches, used with a stick as a percussion instrument in Korean and Chinese ritual music and sometimes in modern bands and orchestras …   Useful english dictionary

• Temple block — The temple block is a percussion instrument originating in China, Japan and Korea where it is used in religious ceremonies. It is a carved hollow wooden instrument with a large slit. In its traditional form, the wooden fish, the shape is somewhat …   Wikipedia

• Temple block — El temple block es un instrumento de percusión similar a la caja china, pero de forma esférica. Se trata de un idiófono de madera de forma esférica (aunque pueda aparcer aplanado) con una ranura a un lado para que tenga resonancia, que se percute …   Enciclopedia Universal

• temple block — tem·ple block loc.s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS mus. strumento a percussione di origine orientale, usato spec. nella musica jazz, formato da una serie di blocchi o cilindri di legno cavi con una fenditura longitudinale che vengono percossi… …   Dizionario italiano

• Temple block (instrument) — Modern wooden temple blocks from industrial production with beater The temple block is a percussion instrument originating in China, Japan and Korea where it is used in religious ceremonies. It is a carved hollow wooden instrument with a large… …   Wikipedia

• temple block — noun a percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood which is struck with a stick …   English new terms dictionary

• temple-block — англ. [тэ/мпл блок] темплблок (ударн. инструм.) …   Словарь иностранных музыкальных терминов

• temple block — /ˈtɛmpəl blɒk/ (say tempuhl blok) noun a percussion instrument comprising a carved hollow wooden form split along its length, traditionally bulbous but now also rectangular, which is struck with a mallet; originating in China, Japan, and Korea… …  

• chinese temple block — noun Usage: usually capitalized C : a hollow slotted wooden box stuck with a drumstick or hammer adapted by jazz bands from the wooden fish used by Buddhist priests called also clog box, tap box * * * Chinese temple block noun A percussion… …   Useful english dictionary

• temple — 1. n. 1 a building devoted to the worship, or regarded as the dwelling place, of a god or gods or other objects of religious reverence. 2 hist. any of three successive religious buildings of the Jews in Jerusalem. 3 US a synagogue. 4 a place of… …   Useful english dictionary