It is a metallophone whose relatively thin keys are strung up by means of cords on bone or metal supports sticking out of the underframe, the keys hanging above tubular resonators.
Gender
It is the smallest and highest pitched instrument of the gamelan ensemble. It is played with a wooden or horn mallet. This example is tuned to the pentatonic scale known as slendro, one of two scales used in gamelan performances.
Saron Panerus
It is composed of a combination of metallophones, xylophones, drums, gongs, and sometimes flutes. It has a strong and dynamic tones with fast music rhythms.
Balinese Gamelan
It is the indigenous orchestra type of the islands of Java and Bali, in Indonesia which consists largely of several varieties of gongs and various sets of tuned metal instruments that are struck with mallets.
Gamelan
It is the largest and lowest of the saron. It is played with a hammer with a wooden head.
Saron Demung
It is an orchestra of 60-plus musical instruments - bronze gongs and metallophones, drums, wooden flute and two-stringed fiddle - which together create a rich, distinctive sound. It also has soft and slow tones
Javanese Gamelan
Most of the gamelan has this kind of instruments which are made of bronze or of iron. All of them are circular with a bulging knob at the center.
Gongs
These are instruments that make sound from the vibrations of stretched skins or membranes. Drums, tambourines, and some gongs are common examples of this classification.
Membranophones
It is a large double-headed drum with water buffalo or cow leather on both ends. Unlike the more frequently used kendang, it's suspended from a frame and played with a padded mallet.
Bedug
It is an end-blown edge aerophone of the Javanese people of Indonesia. It is the only aerophone found in the Javanese gamelan
Suling
It is an Indonesian musical instrument consisting of two to four bamboo tubes suspended in a bamboo frame, bound with rattan cords
Angklung
It has medium size metal bars. It's pitches are one octave lower than the Saron Panerus, and one octave higher than the Saron Demung.
Sarong Barung