This research used qualitative method with the accentuation in field research that involved researcher with the material object to delve various musical experiences by participating as the player of those two musical instruments. The article aims at revealing the transculturation of Javanese gamelan and angklung into the traditional music and its impact on the development of Thailand traditional music. Angklung played with the concept of Javanese gamelan called as angklung Thailand that then becomes Thailand traditional music. These two kinds of music have formed the new characteristic and identity of Thailand music. This transculturation shows the understanding of cultural relation between Thailand traditional music that has the background of Buddhism philosophy and Gamelan that has the background of Kejawen syncretism. That musical transculturation exists in the musical instrument of angklung and the musical concept of Javanese gamelan that are then mixed with the system of Thailand traditional music involving gamut (tuning system), presentment method, and its function in society. Javanese gamelan and angklung to Thailand music gives the impact on the development of Thailand traditional music.
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