The most popular and famous form of Indonesian music is probably gamelan, an ensemble of tuned percussion instruments that include metallophones, drums, gongs and spike fiddles along with bamboo flutes. Percussive instruments that make a gamelan ensemble include: xylophones and metallophones, gongs, and drums (membranophones). However, most instruments in Gamelan are struck idiophones, meaning that the sound is created from vibrating on its own. Gamelan can have up to 50 or 60 different types of instruments. The term "gamelan" is used to describe orchestral arrangements that include metallophones, xylophones, flutes, gongs, vocals, and bowed and plucked strings, among other instruments. Indonesians from the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese ethnic groups are particularly well-known for performing the traditional ensemble music. Gamelan, the indigenous orchestra type of the islands of Java and Bali, in Indonesia, consisting largely of several varieties of gongs and various sets of tuned metal instruments that are struck with mallets. The gongs are either suspended vertically or, as with the knobbed-centre, kettle-shaped. Vay Tiền Trả Góp Theo Tháng Chỉ Cần Cmnd.

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