Klarinet Archive - Posting 000018.txt from 1995/08

From: "R. J. Shilcock" <mlfl@-----.UK>
Subj: Re: Gender tendencies for instruments
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 1995 08:36:39 -0400

There are both Javanese and Balinese varieties of gamelan - and others, no
doubt. I believe the "gender" is specifically a Javanese instrument. They both
include both wooden and (mainly) metal percussion instruments; there exist also
a wooden flute ("suling", also spelt "soeling") and an Arabic-type small
fiddle, the "rabab". In one form of large gamelan - whether J. or B., I don't
know - the leader is the rabab player.
Somebody must know more about this than I do ... I'm at work, so I have no
music reference boox.
Roger Shilcock