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Title
Bristol Community Gamelan
Recordist
Mathew Knight
Performer
Bristol Community Gamelan
Collections
Bristol Collection 1
Related resource guides
Ensemble , Gamelan , Indonesia , Ostinato , Pitch , Pulse , Structure , Texture , Timbre , World

Bristol 1 #9

That was the sound of the Bristol Community Gamelan, an orchestra of instruments from Indonesia – mostly from Java and Bali. The instruments in a gamelan orchestra are usually made of sets of tuned gongs, chimes, metallophones, drums, one or more flutes, string instruments (plucked and bowed) and sometimes singers. The Bristol Community Gamelan is…

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