Discuss the instrumentation in a standard Javanese gamelan ensemble
What will be an ideal response?
• knobbed gong instruments from large hanging gongs to sets of kettle gongs
• metal keyed instruments (metallophones) suspended over cylindrical resonators
• other melodic instruments include fiddle, zithers, xylophones, and a bamboo flute
• drums, small to large, double-headed, struck with hands or stick
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