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The document describes various traditional musical instruments from Indonesia, including the sasando, gong ageng, calung, and saron. The sasando is a tube zither from Rote Island, while the gong ageng is a large metal gong used in Javanese gamelan. Calung is a bamboo instrument from West Java, and the saron is a bronze-bar instrument that plays a key role in gamelan orchestras.

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The document describes various traditional musical instruments from Indonesia, including the sasando, gong ageng, calung, and saron. The sasando is a tube zither from Rote Island, while the gong ageng is a large metal gong used in Javanese gamelan. Calung is a bamboo instrument from West Java, and the saron is a bronze-bar instrument that plays a key role in gamelan orchestras.

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The sasando, also called sasandu from Sandu or Sanu,[1] is

a tube zither, a harp-like traditional music string instrument native


to Rote Island of East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.
The name sasando is derived from the Rote dialect word
”sasandu”, which means "vibrating" or "sounded instrument". It is
believed that the sasando had already been known to the Rote
people since the 7th century.
The main part of the sasando is a bamboo tube that serves as
the frame of the instrument.

The gong ageng is a metal gong idiophone of the


Javanese people of Java, Indonesia. It is the largest (three feet in
diameter) and lowest-pitched instrument in the Javanese
gamelan. This gong ageng pictured here is part of an iron
gamelan and therefore the details of the physical description to
follow differ from those for the same instrument found in bronze
gamelans. Although Javanese forged bronze gongs in general
are remarkable products of highly skilled and admired craftsmen
(see goöng), gongs made from iron are not accorded the same
level of admiration.

Calung is one of the traditional musical instruments of


Indonesia is obtained from the residents of West Java. Calung is
almost angklung as a Musical Instrument. How to play the trunk
of a bamboo tube segments beat them to the pentatonic (da-mi-
na-ti-la) are arranged. to make kinds of bamboo Calung usually
made of black bamboo, but some are made of bamboo awi white
Calung made. Calung a traditional Musical Instrument from West
Java, Calung consists of two types of Calung Rantay and Calung
Jinjing.

The saron is a musical instrument of Indonesia, which is used


in the gamelan. It normally has seven bronze bars placed on top
of a resonating frame (rancak). It is usually about 20 cm (8 in)
high, and is played on the floor by a seated performer. In
a pelog scale, the bars often read 1-2-3-5-6-7 across (the
number four is not used because of its relation to death[citation
needed]
) (in kepatihan numbering); for slendro, the bars are 6-1-2-3-
5-6-1; this can vary from gamelan to gamelan, or even among
instruments in the same gamelan. Slendro instruments
commonly have only six keys. It provides the core melody
(balungan) in the gamelan orchestra.

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