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gong, percussion instrument consisting of a disk, usually with upturned edges, 3 ft (91 cm) or more in diameter in the modern orchestra, often made of bronze, and struck with a felt- or leather-covered mallet or drumstick. Of ancient origin—representations of the gong date back to the 6th cent. A.D.—it has also been called the tam-tam. First used in Western music in the funeral march of Gossec's Mirabeau (1791), the gong has since been a regular member of the European-type orchestra, but it is used sparingly. It is commonly used in East Asian music and in the gamelan music of Bali and Java. gong 1. a percussion instrument of indefinite pitch, consisting of a metal platelike disc struck with a soft-headed drumstick 2. a rimmed metal disc, hollow metal hemisphere, or metal strip, tube, or wire that produces a note when struck. It may be used to give alarm signals when operated electromagnetically |
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| Even Diane Venora, a veteran of the Public Theatre and several Shakespeare films, is doing such an extreme Buster Keaton-esque series of mugging and pratfalls as Lear's Fool that her truth-speaking jester is less at risk of getting hanged than of getting gonged. Three other early multifanged actions were similarly crucial: his gonged appearance (with Bruce Pollack) on The Gong Show in 1978; his drive-by kidnapping of artist-turned-politician Lowell Darling (Kidnap Attempt, 1978); and his own little bravura ring cycle, a critique, in part, of purist art sensibilities for which Labat turned his studio into a training facility (Terminal Gym, 1980-81). The only transformation in the software industry is the ever-changing collection of ways it disguises that you'll be gonged if you get a long division problem incorrect. |
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