Thursday, May 13, 2010
Slenthem is one of the gamelan instruments consisting of thin sheet metal width strung with rope and stretched across the tube-tube and produce a low hum or tone echoes that follow saron, ricik, and balungan when beaten. Some have called it as a gender penembung. Like the other instruments in a set of gamelan, slenthem certainly has a version and version pelog slendro. Wilahan Slenthem Pelog generally have a range of tones C to B, while slenthem slendro has wide range of tones C, D, E, G, A, C '.
How to ring the same as beating balungan slenthem, ricik, or sawn. Right hand and left hand swinging the bat do the "patet", which is holding the vibration at the sheet metal. In beating the much needed slenthem instinct or feeling that the drummer to produce an echo or hum a good shape. In notation, C, D, E, G, for example, echoes that are generated when beating the C must be missing the right tone when the tone sounded D, and so on. From Wikipedia