Ascend with this Opera Gong that has a tone that ascends.
Ascending means the tone goes from low to high! Hooray!
The adjusted tones for opera gongs in China are used to add to the drama and character in the operas.
Chinese Operas are not as fancy or high brow as our European derived operas. (All though some styles were for royals.) Many Chinese Operas were for regular folk and peasants.