Kemanak: Indonesia musical instrument
The kemanak is a banana-shaped idiophone that is used in Javanese gamelan; the musical instrument is manufactured of bronze. They are real...
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The kemanak is a banana-shaped
idiophone that is used in Javanese gamelan; the musical instrument is
manufactured of bronze. They are really metal slit drums. The musical
instrument is struck with a padded stick and then permitted to resonate. The
musical instrument has a particular pitch that can be varied by covering the
slit, though it is not matched to the other musical instruments of gamelan. The
musical instrument is often played in pairs, but they can be performed in sets
of four also. The kemanak are used as an accompaniment musical instrument to
the bedhava and serimpi, female court dances.
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The kemanak is as well a pattern of
gendhing that includes, in addition to kemanak, only colotonic musical
instruments, a kendang and a sindhen.
In the province of Cirebon, on the
northwest coast of Java, the musical instruments are performed in pairs by
striking one pair of the instrument against the other in a monotonous manner.
Unlike in central java, the musical instruments in Cirebon are not earmarked
for particular performance idioms and are seen as indispensible in the standard
gamelan repertoire.
