Thursday, May 13, 2010
Demung is one of the gamelan instruments including balungan family.
In one set of gamelan there are usually two demung, both have pelog and slendro version. Demung resulted in the lowest octave tone with balungan family, with a larger physical size. Wilahan demung have relatively thinner but wider than wilahan saron, so that it produces a lower tone. Hit the demung usually made of wood, with a shape like a hammer, bigger and heavier than the drum saron.
There is the usual way in accordance beating that tone, tone compensation, or beating alternately between first and demung demung 2, resulting in varying tones interwoven but follow a certain pattern. Slow and fast hard penabuhan weak depending on the command of the drum and type gendhingnya. In gendhing Gangsaran describing the condition of war for example, demung beaten with a hard and fast. In a nuanced piece Gati military, beaten demung slow but hard. When accompanied the beaten track slowly. When being in a state return, then the beaten fast and hard.
In one set of gamelan there are usually two demung, both have pelog and slendro version. Demung resulted in the lowest octave tone with balungan family, with a larger physical size. Wilahan demung have relatively thinner but wider than wilahan saron, so that it produces a lower tone. Hit the demung usually made of wood, with a shape like a hammer, bigger and heavier than the drum saron.
There is the usual way in accordance beating that tone, tone compensation, or beating alternately between first and demung demung 2, resulting in varying tones interwoven but follow a certain pattern. Slow and fast hard penabuhan weak depending on the command of the drum and type gendhingnya. In gendhing Gangsaran describing the condition of war for example, demung beaten with a hard and fast. In a nuanced piece Gati military, beaten demung slow but hard. When accompanied the beaten track slowly. When being in a state return, then the beaten fast and hard.
from wikipedia