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Me and my musics
A picture taken in Balikpapan when I played with 2 French guitarists, the music we played together was "Gambang Suling" - A mixture of East (gamelan) and West (Guitars) musics..

I am now preparing a nice story on my classical guitar and activities, hopefully will be completed in the near future

I am willing to collect any suggestion and materials from you, so don't hesitate to send me anything that you think it will be good for the pages..thanks a lot!

GAMELAN
Almost every where in Yogya, Solo, Semarang and other cities in Central Java, in Karatons, in the market, in the villages, in the hotel's lobby, you should hear the magical melodious percussion music - the gamelan Javanese orchestra.

In his book 'music of Java' Jaap Kunst says, "Gamelan is comparable to only two things, moonlight and flowing water. ...mysterious like moonlight and always changing like flowing water ...".

Gamelan music is an integral part of all cultural activities in Java such as wayang kulit (leather puppets) performance, court dance, uyon-uyon (symphony orchestra performance), etc. There are two kinds of laras (tuning) in gamelan, namely slendro (comparable to minor key in Western music) and Pelog (major key).



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