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The Balinese orchestra is called a gamelan. The Bali-Hindu religion
requires the gamelan for the success of the thousands of ceremonies
performed every year.
There are more than two dozen distinct types of gamelan,
each with their own traditions, repertoire and social or religious functions.
The music is full of insistent rhythms and elegant patterns.
There is hardly any improvisation. Traditionally musicians are male,
but women are now receiving recognition, such as the women's group in
Ubud.
Gamelan Gong Kebyar
Style: Bali
Background: This is the most widespread type of gamelan in Bali. 25
to 35 musicians produce really intense, loud, lively, exciting music,
with rapid changes of tempo, full of sudden starts and stops.
The mainly percussion instruments are played in unison.
There are a number of different sized instruments, metallophones
that look like xylophones, called gangsas, which have bronze keys that
are hit with little wooden hammers which causes bamboo resonators below
the keys to vibrate. They may have 4 to 14 keys and are grouped in pairs.
After the keys have been hit by the hammer in the right hand, the left
hand immediately grasps the key to stop the sound merging in the next
note.
Reyong
Style: Bali
Order Number: G1
Background: The Reyong is a long framed instrument holding about a dozen
inverted bronze pots, having small knobs on top, bosses, which are hit
with sticks by 4 players sitting alongside, each player being responsible
for his own section.
Price is given for 12 pots.
Gender
Material: Jackfruit wood, leather, gold leaf, bronze keys
Style: Bali
Size: Height 54 cm, width 12 cm, length 76 cm, 20 kilos
Order Number: G2
Background: The gender is played with 2 round-headed, unpadded mallets,
one in each hand. It gives tonal color to the music. The Balinese gender
is usually decorated with ornate designs and motifs.
Angklung
Material: Jackfruit wood, gold leaf, bronze keys
Style: Bali
Size: Height 38 cm, width 16 cm, length 38 cm, 12 kilos
Order Number: G3
Kantilan
Material: Jackfruit wood, gold leaf, bronze keys
Style: Bali
Size: Height 38 cm, width 16 cm, length 82 cm, 25 kilos
Order Number: G4
Ceng Ceng Ricik
Material: Bronze, jackfruit wood
Style: Bali
Background: 6 small bronze cymbals are fastened
to the top of a wooden stand, 2 are loose. The seated player holds a
cymbal in each hand. He clashes them against the fastened cymbals. The
effect is loud, colorful and exciting.
Balinese woodcarvers decorate the jackfruit wood
stands with Balinese legends, like the mythical turtle, who balances
the world on his back.
Size: Height 13 cm, width 33 cm, length including turtle's head 37 cm,
4 kilos
Diameter of each cymbal 10 cm
Order Number: G5A
Diameter of each cymbal 11 cm
Order Number: G5B
Diameter of each cymbal 12 cm
Order Number: G5C
Rebab
Material: Tamarind wood
Style: Bali
Size: Height 54 cm, width 26 cm, length 110 cm
Order Number: G6
Background: The 2-stringed rebab produces a lovely viola-like sound
and is believed to be the ancestor of the modern violin. It is hard
to distinguish in a full gamelan.
Kempli
Material: Bronze
Style: Bali
Size: Height 39 cm, circumference 93 cm
Order Number: G7
Background: A large kettle-drum, which all the musicians
depend on to keep time, especially when the rhythms get tricky.
Tingklik
Material: Bamboo, wood, paint
Style: Bali
Size: Height 30 cm, length 85 cm, depth 94 cm
Order Number: G8
Background: The tingklik or bamboo xylophone produces a flowing, tinkling
sound, and is traditionally used to accompany the Balinese dance called
joged bungbung, a flirting dance performed by girls, who invite male
spectators to dance by tapping them with a fan.
Kemong
Material: Bronze, teak
Style: Bali
Size: Height 71 cm, width 57 cm, depth 14 cm; gong: diameter 28 cm,
circumference 89 cm
Order Number: G9
Background: There are a number of single fine bronze gongs, which are
hit at intervals with a cloth-covered mallet, to divide up and underline
the formal structure of the composition. The formal structures are cyclical.
The gongs are very important in maintaining a feeling of balance.
Trompong
Style: Bali
Order Number: G10
Background: Sometimes there is an instrument, similar to a Reyong, called
a trompong, which is played by only one person, whose arms need to be
long; this, along with the suling and rebab, are the only instruments
which improvise.
Drums
Style: Bali
Order Number: G11
Background: Drums, called kendang, are double-ended and held across
the lap. They lead the orchestra. In each pair, there is a higher pitched
one, designated male and a lower-pitched one, female.
The kendang is considered the most difficult instrument
in the gamelan. The diameter is greater at one end than the other, which
creates a rounded belly-like swelling at one end. They produce a wealth
of sounds, from sharp cracks to deep hums and booms.
Price is given for a set of two.
Suling 1
Style: Bali
Size: Length 34.5 cm, circumference 2.5 cm
Material: Bamboo
Order Number: G12
Background: High pitched bamboo flutes, suling, are often part of the
gamelan.
Suling 2
Material: Bamboo
Style: Bali
Sizes:
Large: Length 40.5 cm, circumference 2.75 cm
Order Number: G13A
Small: Length 34.5 cm, circumference 2.5 cm
Order Number: G13B
Gender Mallets
Material: Wood
Style: Bali
Size: Length 25.5 cm
Order Number: G14
Kantilan Hammer
Material: Wood
Style: Bali
Size: Length 22.5 cm
Order Number: G15
Gong Mallets
Material: Wood
Style: Bali
Size: Length 21 cm
Order Number: G16
Big Gong Mallet
Material: Wood
Style: Bali
Size: Length 27 cm
Order Number: G17
Big Gong
Material: Bronze
Style: Bali
Gong only:
Extra Large: Diameter 80 cm, depth 22 cm, weight
28 kg
Order Number: G18A
Large: Diameter 77 cm, depth 20 cm, weight 25 kg
Order Number: G18B
Medium: Diameter 70 cm
Order Number: G18C
Small: Diameter 55 cm, depth 15 cm, weight 11 kg
Order Number: G18D
Add Stand:
as in photo:
Order Number: G18E
with elaborate Balinese carving:
Order Number: G18F
Cymbal
Material: Bronze
Style: Bali
Size: Circumference 10.5 cm
Order Number: G19
Pemade (Carved)
Material: Bronze, jackfruit wood
Style: Bali: Carved
Order Number: G19B
Background: Mid-register 10
keys.
Pemade (Uncarved)
Material: Bronze, jackfruit wood
Style: Bali: Uncarved
Order Number: G19C
Jegogan (Carved)
Material: Bronze, jackfruit wood
Style: Bali: Carved
Order Number: G19D
Background: Lowest register,
five keys, hit with a soft mallet.
Jegogan (Uncarved)
Material: Bronze, jackfruit wood
Style: Bali: Uncarved
Order Number: G19E
Calung or Jublag
Material: Bronze, jackfruit wood
Style: Bali: Carved
Order Number: G19F
Background: Low register, five
keys, hit with a soft mallet.
The following instruments are not part of the Balinese gamelan.
Drum
Material: Wood, leather
Style: Sumatra - not a gamelan instrument
Size: Height 22.5 cm, width 20.5 cm, circumfrence 71 cm
Order Number: G20
Rebana Drum
Material: Wood, buffalo hide membrane
Style: Rebana drum, Sumatra - not a gamelan instrument
Size: Height 10 cm, width 27 cm, circumference 88 cm
Order Number: G21
Background: Rebana are frame-drums, which means that the diameter of
the head is greater than the depth of the body.
Rebana have tubular bodies, of wood or metal, this
one being made of wood, and a membrane covering only one end.
They are closely associated with Islam and are played
at Muslim weddings and other ceremonies. The drummers are usually male
and generally sing as they drum.
