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kenong

Kenong” is the generic designation for individual, large, horizontally-resting gamelan gongs. A kenong has a very deep in-turned rim, in-slopping shoulder, and a flat surface surrounding the base of a dome-shaped knob, which is the part of the gong that the performer strikes with a stick beater tightly wound with rope padding.

The five kenong jaler and the kenong japan (from front right to back left) of gamelan sléndro K.K. Surak.
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