![]() The word ‘gamel’ means to hammer something in Javanese and indeed, ‘hammering’ or hitting is the way in which most of the different instruments in the ensemble are sounded with the exception of the two stringed instruments - the bowed fiddle (rebab) and the plucked zither (siter) - the flute (suling), male chorus (gerong) and female soloists (pasindhen). GAMELAN MUSIC: “Gamelan is a Javanese/Indonesian word for ensemble. For more complex messages, he invented two other gongs, thus forming the original gamelan set. He needed a signal to summon the gods, and thus invented the gong. ![]() 230 C.E.) by Sang Hyang Guru, the god who ruled as king of all Java from a palace on the Maendra mountains in Medangkamulan (now Mount Lawu). ![]() In Javanese mythology, the gamelan was created in Saka era 167 (c. Apparently gamelan predates the Hindu-Buddhist culture that dominated Indonesia in its earliest records, and instead represents a native art form. ORIGINS: The origins of the gamelan are ancient and mysterious.
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