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gamelan
Gamelan (; , ; ; ) is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments. The most common instruments used are metallophones (played with mallets) and a set of hand-drums called kendang, which keep the beat. The kemanak, a banana-shaped idiophone, and the gangsa, another metallophone, are also commonly used gamelan instruments on Bali. Other notable instruments include xylophones, bamboo flutes (similar to the Indian bansuri), a bowed string instrument called a rebab (somewhat similar to the gadulka of B
Colin McPhee
Canadian composer and musicologist
Jaap Kunst
Dutch ethnomusicologist (1891–1960)
dalang
puppeteer in an Indonesian wayang performance

Mantle Hood
American ethnomusicologist
Malay gamelan
style of gamelan music