Yunluo

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Yunluo (云罗; literally "cloud gongs" or "cloud of gongs") is a traditional Chinese musical instrument.

The yunluo is a set of usually ten small tuned gongs mounted in a wooden frame, each gong is about 9 - 12cm in diameter, the height of the frame is about 52cm. The yunluo's gongs are generally of equal diameter but different thicknesses; the thicker gongs produce a higher pitch. It is often used in wind and percussion ensembles in Northern China.

A modernised yunluo has been developed from the traditional yunluo for use in the large modern Chinese orchestra. It is much larger with 29 or more gongs of different diameters. Its height is about 2m including its two legs on which it stands on the floor (the frame itself is about half its height), its width is about 1.4 m.

The traditional yunluo is sometimes called the shimianluo (literally "ten faced gongs") to distinguish it from the modern redesigned yunluo.