A traditional music ensemble from Indonesia, featuring instruments such as xylophones, gongs, bells, bamboo flutes, and strings is known as what?
Central Java Central Javanese music is almost synonymous with "gamelan". This is a musical ensemble typically featuring a variety of instruments such as metallophones, xylophones, drums, and gongs; bamboo flutes, bowed and plucked strings, and vocalists may also be included. The term refers more to the set of instruments than the players of those instruments. A gamelan as a set of instruments is a distinct entity, built and tuned to stay together — instruments from different gamelan are not interchangeable. However, gamelan is not typically Central Javanese as it is also known somewhere else. Contemporary Javanese pop music is called "campursari". It
Music of Malaysia war; songs for dancing and community entertainment; as well as a wide variety of instrumental music. Instruments used include drums, gongs, flutes, zithers, xylophones, and Jew's harps, of which the bronze gongs are the most significant. Ensembles of gongs of various sizes are played to welcome guests and in ceremonies and dances. A well-known instrument in Sarawak is the "sapeh", a plucked lute of the Kayan and Kenyah people which is used for entertainment and dancing. Other instruments include the xylophone "jatung utang", bamboo flutes ("suling", "seruling", "kesuling", "ensuling", and "nabat"), and sets of bamboo tubes called "togunggak" which were