Metal-string zither with a box resonator. Strings are paired in double courses and plucked with the performer’s long thumbnails. One clempung is found in common practice sléndro gamelans, one or two in common practice pélog gamelans.
The Gamelans of the Kraton Yogyakarta
by Roger Vetter, Grinnell College Department of Music
Metal-string zither with a box resonator. Strings are paired in double courses and plucked with the performer’s long thumbnails. One clempung is found in common practice sléndro gamelans, one or two in common practice pélog gamelans.