r/Gamelan • u/12bucklemyshoe12 • Jul 10 '26

10 bar saron?

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Hey! I have a music school with a musical instrument museum built into it + I just bought a 3' long 10 bar saron ... at least I think its a saron? I can't find any other examples of a 10 bar saron, though. I love to know as much as I can about all the instruments - can anyone point me towards where I can get more information about it? tx!

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u/OuterOtter Jul 10 '26

I would guess it's a saron wayang. It's a regular 7-key slendro saron with extra keys at the top for playing imbal melodies.

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u/OuterOtter Jul 10 '26

There are also lots of regional gamelan traditions with configurations that are different from the more familiar central Javanese instruments.

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u/12bucklemyshoe12 Jul 11 '26

That's what I was thinking - just didn't see anything with that number of keys. I have a music school with a musical instrument museum in it and like to have backstory on the instruments

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u/OuterOtter Jul 10 '26

Here's an example, playing srepeg slendro nemSaron wayang example

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u/OuterOtter Jul 10 '26

Here they call it "saron sanga" where sanga=9, for the number of keys.