0 a musical instrument from Indonesia, with several metal pots placed on strings over a wooden frame
The pelog bonang will each have fourteen gongs.
A good "bonang" player will choose a "sekaran" based on how the other instruments and the "sindhen" are improvising.
Archaic ensembles may still include such instruments as the gambang gangsa, slentho (in place of slenthem), and bonang panembung.
They are usually played with similar padded sticks to the bonang, except larger.
It is usually preceded by "imbal", an interlocking pattern between the "bonang barung" and the "bonang panerus".
Bonang may be made of forged bronze, welded and cold-hammered iron, or a combination of metals.
They are shaped like bonang, but are generally placed in their own frame ("rancak").
Buka are often played by the bonang barung in the so-called loud style.
