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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 slentem; those dec orating the melo dy or 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 punctuati ing melodic phrases. such as the gongs. The KENDANG examples shown here are Javanese but all these instruments have similar Balinese equi valents. JAVANESE GAMELAN Two systems nning the slendro (f ive-t one and pelog (seven-tone exist within each game lan. While mor restrain ed than the Palinese style the Javanese SARON gam elan creates music of wonder rful sonority GONG UGENC BALINESE GAmELAN Balinese meta llophones are used in pairs, with one tmned slightly ...