Gamelan with male groups. In the twenty-five countries outside Indonesia that have gamelan, music performed in a concert context or as part of ceremonies for expat communities may also accompany dance or "wayang". The tuning and construction of a gamelan orchestra is a complex process. Javanese gamelan use two tuning systems: "sléndro" and "pélog". There are other tuning systems such as "degung" (exclusive to Sunda, or West Java), and "madenda" (also known as "diatonis", similar to a European natural minor scale). In central Javanese gamelan, "sléndro" is a system with five notes to the octave, with large intervals, while "pélog" has
Gamelan outside Indonesia Java and brought to Vancouver in 1990 and resides at the Western Front Artist Center. Both Vancouver-based ensembles are regularly used in performances by the Vancouver Community Gamelan. There are over eighty gamelans (as of 2002) of various kinds in the United Kingdom, many of them based at colleges or community centres. University of York was the first British university to purchase a gamelan, named Kyai Sekar Patak; it is still played by students there. The oldest community Gamelan group in the UK is the Oxford Gamelan Society, which plays Kyai Madu Laras, donated to the University of Oxford's Bate