Saron (Traditional Indonesian Instruments)

Saron (or also called ricik) is one of the gamelan instruments including balungan family.

In one set of gamelan usually have four saron, and all have versions pelog and slendro. Saron produce a tone an octave higher than demung, with a smaller physical size. Hit the saron usually made of wood, with a shape like a hammer.
From left-right; saron panerus, saron barung, and demung, from STSI Surakarta

There is the usual way in accordance beating with tone, tone compensation, or beating alternately between one and the sawn sawn 2. Slow and fast hard beating weak depending on the command of the drum and type gendhingnya. In gendhing Gangsaran that describes the conditions of war, for example, ricik beaten with a hard and fast. In a nuanced piece Gati military, beaten ricik slow but hard. When accompanied the beaten track slowly.From Wikipedia