36-inch Electric Gong

Click the player icons below to hear recordings of the 36″ electric gong from our ACM exhibit. You can click more than one at a time to hear them blend into chords. (You may hear distortion when multiple sounds are playing.) Listen for the different characteristics of each note. When you combine notes, which ones make the best harmony?

The notes correspond to vibrational modes. They are measured by experiment and can not be tuned without physically altering the gong. Therefore each gong posesses a unique set of notes. This means music must be written specifically for the instrument if pitch accuracy is desired.

39.9 Hz
119.9 Hz
163.9 Hz
172.2 Hz
187.5 Hz
218.1 Hz
234.9 Hz
248.3 Hz
260.0 Hz
290.9 Hz
307.1 Hz
317.8 Hz
346.3 Hz
364.3 Hz