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A gamelan is a musical ensemble from Indonesia, typically from the islands of Bali or Java, featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings. Vocalists may also be included.
One such ensemble is gamelan Manikasanti, which can play the repertoire of many different ensembles. Balinese Gamelan in Museu de la Música de Barcelona, Spain. Balinese gamelan instruments are built in pairs that are tuned slightly apart to produce interference beats, ideally at a consistent speed for all pairs of notes in all registers. This ...
The gamelan plays in two different ensemble types: loud-playing ensemble and soft-playing ensemble. The gendèr is used in both styles. The soft-playing style includes voices and instruments like gambang, celempung, rebab, gendèr panerus, and gendèr barung.
This is one of the most important instruments in the ensemble, as it gives many of the cues to other players in the gamelan. Bonang panembung is pitched the lowest. It is more common in Yogyanese style gamelan, covering approximately the same range as the slenthem and demung combined.
Gong Ageng in Javanese Gamelan ensemble Two gong sets; pélog scale set and sléndro scale set. Smaller kempul gongs are suspended between gong ageng (largest, right-side) and its gong suwukan (left, facing rearward). The gong ageng (or gong gedhe in Ngoko Javanese, means large gong) is an Indonesian musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan.
Gamelan instruments. This is a list of gamelan varieties. Javanese gamelan varieties. Gamelan Kodok Ngorek; ... Gamelan Degung; Gamelan kedempling; Gamelan Banyuwangi;
A gambang, properly called a gambang kayu ('wooden gambang') is a xylophone-like instrument used in Indonesian gamelan and kulintang ensembles. It has wooden bars (wilah) in contrast to the metallic ones of the more typical metallophones in a gamelan. A largely obsolete instrument, the gambang gangsa, is a similar instrument made with metal bars.
"Gamelan instruments" is technically redundant since, "The name 'gamelan' actually refers only to the instruments themselves...Javanese have a separate word for the art of playing gamelan instruments..." Lindsay, Jennifer (1992). Javanese Gamelan, p.10. ISBN 0-19-588582-1.