CYLINDRICAL BURMESE (MYANMAR) BRASS DINNER GONG

A CYLINDRICAL BURMESE (MYANMAR) BRASS DINNER GONG.
IT HAS A LEAF PATTERN ON THE CYLINDER. YOU HIT THE CYLINDER WITH A MALLET  AND AS IT SWINGS IT HITS THE BRASS POLE MAKING A RINGING SOUND.
The gong has been a Chinese instrument for millennia. Its first use may have been to signal peasant workers in from the fields, because some larger  gongs are loud enough to beheard from up to 5 miles (8 km) away.
In Japan, they are traditionally used to start the beginning of sumo wrestling contests.
During the Victorian and Edwardian eras, it was often the custom in hotels, on ships and in large, upper-class houses to sound a dinner gong to announce a meal was about to be served.
These gongs are most often found in Thailand Burmese temples, used in Thai or Burmese Traditional Music, or played in households to turn away bad spirits.
Condition: REGRETTABLY THE MALLET IS MISSING. BUT THOSE CREATIVE SOULS OUT THERE SHOULD BE ABLE TO COMPLETE THE SETUP. THE CYLINDRICAL RIM HAS SOME BENDS.
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