Bali

topic posted Sat, February 23, 2008 - 5:03 AM by  Artwit
I was just there for a week, heard bith gamelan and a cappella chants (kecak mostly) and was interested to find out from wikipedia that often gamelans even in adjacent villages will have different tunings, and sometimes a large gamelan will have dual sets of instruments for the two most popular scales. A decent approximation is a set of 7 tones selected from 9-tone equal temperament, and from those seven, different sets of 5-tones scales...
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