Ketuk
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/tag/37873
- Note
- "The ketuk is a metal gong idiophone of the Sundanese people of Java, Indonesia. It is the smallest horizontally-mounted gong in the Sundanese gamelan salendro (see Gamelan Prunggu (Bronze) from West Java for tuning and register information for the instruments in the Grinnell set). Sundanese gamelan instruments in general are remarkable products of highly skilled craftsmen. The transformation, with the aid of fire, of raw materials from the earth into physical objects of sound production is seen by many Sundanese to be fraught with supernatural dangers. In earlier times, gongsmiths were viewed as possessing priestly like powers and would take on the names of mythological characters as forms of protection in their craft." (https://omeka1.grinnell.edu/MusicalInstruments/items/show/92; 05.06.2019)
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