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Bent into a ladle or banana like shape, it is a pair of bronze slit-drums hit with tabuh beaters. Catalog context: Banana shaped bronze slit-drum used in javanese gamelan. Public…

The jinghu is a Chinese bowed string instrument with two strings used primarily in Beijing opera. Catalog context: Beijing opera upmost small & high pitch huqin. Public catalog clues linked…

Turkish box-shaped kemenche, mainly used for folk music. This guide turns the available catalog record into a serious starter pathway: setup, sound production, technique priorities, listening research, self-checks, and a…

An empty jug (usually made of glass or stoneware) played with the mouth. Public catalog clues linked to this instrument include needs image. This guide turns the available catalog record…

Singular bronze gong-chime kettle set on a decorated jackfruit-wood box stand. Used as time or tempo keeper, it is struck on the boss with panggul beater, which provides reference point…

Sacred cylindrical goat or cattle rawhide drum, traditionally it was held with straps or placed on a stand and played horizontally while walking to battle, on special state occasions and…

Set of 6 to 10 smaller hanging pitched bronze gongs with a protruding centre knob struck with tabuh beaters. Higher pitched than the gong ageng, it is often hung together…

Played by manipulating the airstream through bamboo pipes using cupping and clapping, this Vietnamesian "Air Xylophone" was traditionally played in the rice-field. Catalog context: Vietnamese Air Xylophone. Public catalog clues…

Always used with ketuk, it consists of two bronze kettle-gongs, pitched a note apart. Ached top bossed gongs are sat in the highly decorated rancak frame, beaten with tabuh beaters…

There are two kinds, boat shaped "mother" and "child" ones, originally made of a single piece of wood and descended from the kacapi pantun as used in epic story. And…