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| | About Bali -- gamelan, Music, gong, instruments, Balinese, orchestra, musicians, orchestras, arts, Bali, dancers, island |
 | | The national music of Bali is gamelan, a jangly clashing of syncopated sounds once described by the writer Miguel Covarrubias as being like "an Oriental ultra-modern Bach fugue, an astounding combination of bells, machinery and thunder". |
 | | Gamelan is actually the Javanese word for the bronze instruments, and the music probably came over from Java around the fourteenth century, but the Balinese duly adapted it to suit their own personality, and now the sounds of the Javanese and Balinese gamelan are distinctive even to the untrained ear. |
 | | Although the gamelan kebyar is currently by far the most fashionable style of music in Bali, and therefore the most common type of orchestra. |
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