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OCR: AVANESE AND BALINESE GAMELANS HE GAMELAN INSTRUMENTS can be divided GENDER into four main groups those playing the basic melody, such as sarons and slent em: those dec orating the melo dy playing a cont rasting tune such as bonangs and genders: those controlling the speed and rhythm of the music suc as the kendang: and those punctuating melodic phrases suchas the gongs. The KENDANG examples shown here are Javanese but all these instruments have similar Balinese equivalents JAVANESE GAMELAN Two systems 01 tuning the slendro (f ive-t one and pelog (seven-tone exist within each game lan. While mor restrained than the Balinese stvle the Javanese SARON gam elan creates music of wonderful sonority GONC UGENC BALINESE GAMELAN Balinese metallophones ar used in pairs, with one tuned slightly higher ...