Six days later the king again sent three praus with great pomp, which encircled the ships with musical instruments [cinphonie] playing and drums and brass gongs beating.
These gongs were struck with wooden hammers by other members of the company, and thus served as an orchestra.
Behind the dalang was a gamelan, or series ofgongs mounted on a wooden frame much like an ordinary couch.
A series of such pulsations in the proper direction will, therefore, cause the tapper to play between the two gongs and ring the bell as usual.
The method of mounting is such that the standards may be adjusted slightly so as to bring the gongscloser to or farther from, the tapper.
The rebound of the hammer from the gongs tended, in other words, to accelerate the rate of vibration, which, as might be expected, caused a serious difficulty in the practical operation of the bells.
It is seen that the polarized bell or ringer has its working parts mounted on the inside of the door or cover of the box, the tapper projecting through so as to play between the gongs on the outside.
This yoke piece also carries the standards 2 upon which the gongs are mounted.
Ringers of this kind were always made with but a single gong, it being found difficult to secure uniformity of ringing and uniformity of adjustment when two gongs were employed.
Polarized Ringer] If, now, such an electromagnet, a permanent magnet, and a pivoted armature be related to a pair of gongs as shown in Fig.
As will be seen, the gongsare mounted on posts which are carried on levers pivoted to the ringer frame.
The gongs are so adjusted that the tapper ball will have to spring about one thirty-second of an inch in order to hit them.
Obviously, by turning this worm screw in one direction or the other, the gongs are moved slightly toward or from the armature or tapper.
This was done so that when the tapper began to strike the gongs the tapper would be accelerated and brought practically into tune with the current frequency, and the ringing would continue regularly as long as the current flowed.
From the depths below, down in Nagasaki, arises a sudden noise of gongs and guitars; we rush to the balcony of the verandah to hear it better.
These gongs should be selected for tone as in a chime clock.
The parts for the gongs and electrical apparatus are supported on a baseboard, 3/4 in.
Illustration: Location of the Clock Works, Magnets, Binding Posts, Gongs and Strikers on the Baseboard (Fig.
The gongsclanged out an alarm and the throbbing ceased.
The two gongs clanged like an echo to him, and the Puncher's speed was reduced at once to her point, of minimum stability.
The big gongs clanged again, and the Puncher drifted rather than drove down on the smaller craft.
The gongs clanged presently, and the Puncher swallowed half her speed at once, giving the pilot courage.
At length the struggle becomes quite terrible, while the gongs and cymbals rage.
Before the last numbers on the programme are over the sudden thundering of gongs is heard outside, the playing of citherns, and the clashing of cymbals, and of all the rest of the iron instruments of China.
There is an enormous crowd waiting to see me make my entrance to the funereal sound of the gongs and the prolonged cries of the heralds.
As soon as we begin to march gongs commence to sound lugubriously at regular intervals as for a military salute, whilst heralds with prolonged cries announce my arrival to the inhabitants of the village.
The gongs are muffled, the heralds sound their cries.
Rough, hoarse vociferations, in a quality of voice unfamiliar to our ears, are heard on all sides, to an accompaniment of grating violins, noisy gongs and bells.
It was an exciting time, with gongs and drums, Malay yells and English hurrahs; and our fervent prayers for their safety and success accompanied them that night, as they dropped down the river in gay procession.
He was woke by a noise of ravishing music, the sweetest gongs and chanangs mingling with voices over his head.
Boats were continually arriving, gay with streamers, and noisy with gongs and drums beating, with heads of Chinese on board.
While this was going on there was much beating of gongs and drums, and then the same process of dyeing was repeated on the bride by women.
Gongs began to crash all over the ship, from the stoke hole to the navigating bridge.
The signal gongswere clanging automatically all through the ship.
There sounded behind them numberless bells, gongs that called and gongs that answered.
Here perhaps the best Burmese gongs may be purchased, and the stalls for cut flowers display a rich profusion of blooms, whose scent fills the whole temple precincts.
At Nankin each day the signal for prayer was given from the Tien-wang's palace, when the great gongs within the first courtyard were sounded.
A Chinese gang swooped down upon the house from behind, beating gongsand shouting.
All the people in the streets are shouting at the top of their voices, the chair and baggage coolies are yelling, and to complete the bewildering din the beggars at every corner are demanding charity by striking two gongs together.
The gongs clanged, and the big stern wheel reversed, then stopped.
The tumult of farewell rose again, the gongs clanged, and the Seattle No.
On the contrary," replied Kai Lung, "while listening to your voice I seemed to hear the beating of many gongs of the finest and most polished brass.
Surely the time cannot be far distant when the sound of many gongs will announce that the very desirable repast is at length to be partaken of.
Clouds of incense had regaled his expansive mahogany nostrils, while his ears of ivory inlaid with gold and bronze had been stimulated with the ceaseless clashing of gongs and wailings of Chinese fiddles.
Add to this the clashing of cymbals and beating of gongs from a theatre hard by, and you have a faint idea of a street in Kalgan at midday.
For full half an hour before closing time there is at every guard-house or gate a beating of gongs and clashing of cymbals that would awaken the dead.
Drums and gongs are beaten throughout the night, not merely as a distraction for their grief but as a menace to the ever-present demons.
As soon as the expectant women and the few men who had remained in the village had satisfied themselves that their relatives and friends were returning, drums and gongs were beaten in answer.
First walked two musicians slowly tapping gongsshaped like saucers with large spoons.
It was high noon, and the various departmental gongs had begun to give their version of the meridian, with that unbiased disregard for that of their neighbours which makes the time of day an absolute uncertainty in a big camp.
Beside the gongs a Kayan house generally contains, as the common property of the whole household, several long narrow drums (Fig.
The ceremony of casting out evil spirits is of frequent occurrence among Malanaus, and the noise of gongs and drums throughout the night, lasting every night for sometimes a whole week, cannot fail to impress even a casual observer.
Then the bride and bridegroom walk up and down the row of gongs eight times, stepping only upon the metal.
But the drums and gongs go faster, till the long hair of the woman flies round with her head.
More gongs are added to the row upon the floor, chiefly by the friends invited by the bridegroom, who thus make their wedding gifts, perhaps until the row extends to the door of the bride's room.
At the present time, when slaves are scarcer than of yore, they are rarely given in such cases, but usually brass gongs; and the gongs are always accompanied by a pig.
In every house is a number of large brass gongs (TAWAK), which are used in various ceremonies and for signalling, and constitute also one of the best recognised standards of value and the most important form of currency.
At this time, therefore, children are told off to beat upon gongs hung about the new site, and so, by scaring away the birds and obscuring the sound of their cries, to prevent the appearance of bad omens from their side.
Then the fun begins, gongs and drums are struck, and the strains of music sound through the village.
All these gongs are obtained through traders from Bruni, China, and Java.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gongs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
