Sneng

{{Short description|Aerophone made from an ox horn or water buffalo horn}}{{Infobox instrument

| name = Sneng ស្នែង

| image = Sneng ស្នែង in front of water buffalo horn.jpg

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| caption =A side-blown Cambodian musical instrument called a Sneng ស្នែង, made from a cow's horn, sits in front of an end-blown sneng, made from a water buffalo horn. The side-blown instrument's mouthpiece is visible on the side of the horn.

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| names = saamleng sneng

| classification = side-blown: woodwind
end-blown: brass

| hornbostel_sachs = side-blown: 422.33
end-blown: 423.121.21

| hornbostel_sachs_desc =side-blown: horns with free reed
end-blown: labrosones with curved tubes without mouthpiece

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| related =*Abeng (Maroon people) (Jamaica)

• Gweh (Karen people)
• Koy (Thailand)
• Kwai (Myanmar))
• Pepa (Assam)
• Pung Sing Nepal
• Tơ đjếp (Vietnam)

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File:Sneng សំលេងស្នែង (somleang sneng ).webm

The sneng or snaeng ({{langx|km|ស្នែង}}, "horn") is an aerophone made from an ox horn or water buffalo horn. It is loud enough to call across a distance and has been used in rural environments to signal mealtimes, give warning, call for help or indicate a need to return to the village. It was also used to call domestic elephants in from the field, and hunters communicated with it.

Two different types of sneng exist:

• The more common one is a side-blown instrument with a rectangular hole on the side of the horn, where a bamboo single-free-reed mouthpiece is fastened with wax.{{cite book|last=Sam-Ang|first=Sam|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8OSAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97|title=The Garland Handbook of Southeast Asian Music|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2008|editor1-last=Miller|editor1-first=Terry E.|location=New York, US|page=97|chapter=The Khmer People of Cambodia|isbn=9781135901547 |editor2-last=Williams|editor2-first=Sean}}{{cite book|last1=Khean|first1=Yun|url=http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0013/001352/135257mb.pdf|title=Traditional Musical Instruments of Cambodia|last2=Dorivan|first2=Keo|last3=Lina|first3=Y|last4=Lenna|first4=Mao|publisher=United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|year=2003|edition=2nd|location=Kingdom of Cambodia|page=134}} The reed there can be either blown or sucked to produce a tone. Both ends of the horn are open and function as finger holes to change the pitch, the pointed end covered by the left index finger and the wide end covered by the right palm. This type is capable of two notes, tuned a fourth apart.
• Another type is an end-blown instrument with the tip of the horn cut off and without the bamboo mouthpiece, like the conventional blowing horn. It is less common because it produces only one note.