Gender Panerus from the Javanese Gamelan Kyai Rengga Manis Everist

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NMM 9862. Gender Panerus in Laras Slendro. Fourteen bronze bars suspended by a cord over sheet iron resonating tubes in a teakwood frame. Decorated with flower and leaf pattern covered with gold leaf. Feet decorated with a single leaf pattern covered with gold leaf. Length (wing to wing, not including wings): 96.5 cm. Two small mallets (tabuh) with handles and disc-shaped heads with ring-shaped, red-cloth padding.

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Function:  The gender panerus is one of the gamelan’s elaborating instruments. It is similar in its appearance to the gender barung but its range extends one octave higher. Unlike the gender barung, the gender panerus does not serve as a melody leader but simply as ornamentation. Its rhythm is usually even and without syncopation and it fills the spaces between the basic melody notes of the balungan played by the saron barung, saron demung, and slenthem.

Playing technique:  The gender panerus is played with two hands, each note dampened when the following note is played.

Go to Checklist of Musical Instruments from Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan

Go to The Manufacture and Ceremonial History of the Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan

Go to The Arrival of the Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan in Vermillion, July 15, 2000

Go to The Naming Ceremony for the Kyai Rengga Manis Everist Gamelan, April 26, 2003

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