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bonang
musical instrument
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gamelans
- In gamelan
…knobbed-centre, kettle-shaped gongs of the bonang, placed flat. Percussive melodic instruments include the bonang, the xylophone (gambang kayu), and various metallophones (instruments with a series of tuned metal plates, either suspended over a resonance trough or on resonance tubes). A sustained melody is played either by the bamboo flute (suling)…
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Southeast Asian music
- In Southeast Asian arts: Java
…gongs in double rows (bonang panembang, bonang barung, bonang panerus) play variations with the same ratio of speed as the saron group. In softer sounding music for indoor performance, other panerusan instruments with very mellow sounds come in. These are three sizes of thin bronze slabs with bamboo resonators—gender…
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