The "dalang" gives a sign, the small gamelan orchestra with drummer and a few knobbed gongs and a musician with a "rebab" (a violin-like instrument held vertically) begins to play, and the "dalang" unrolls the first scroll of the story. Then, speaking and singing, he narrates the episode in more detail. In this manner, in the course of the evening he unrolls several scrolls one at a time. Each scene in the scrolls represents a story or part of a story. The content of the story typically stems from the Panji romances which are semi-historical legends set in the 12th–13th century East Javanese kingdoms of Jenggala, Daha and Kediri, and also in Bali.