flaoiis, and capable of accompanying pathetic strains. Thetwogfc^diiier
from' each other b^onemote'! • -
The- ahdVC^b&ervatibhsf apply particularly^ to* the gdrtielan p ih g , which
visually accompanies the recttafcibtfofith^'popularppemsiof'the febthtry. The
gainbting'Miftt'pft the' salindru, appears only ■ to- differ. in^being, in another
key,’ 'whMviS 'considered bfettefr suited doHteroeq&sions in which'that kind of
gameian'i# Uste'd:;! >'• :‘i
h.-The airs:.which aWexhiMted.m.hthe-nmiexea plate: are^tefetefed from
feeteral written 'dowff-;by algentlemari-’iatt-■tferh&fang, as %bfeV'weVe7played oh
tlie '-rebAb ofrthe gdmelan>pebg,..and may afford \a further ..illustration of
tShpinature* of -t-he^m^usic.:
: •Butv-it^is th’e hatmonywand pleasing sound, of all’ thd-inrtrUment» united?
which gives 'ithe;< music? of Java; its'-fpeouliar character'Imongy-Asiatics.
The : doted». produced.pn.rseverai .oft the; inrtrutnents; are --peculiarly ricbj
and when ■ heard, kb a distance ; have been .fjequently 'tcompared -to.' those
‘produced- on-4he>'harmooic. glasses, .g l a i r s , however, simpWandi. mono-
tohbjis^hey may appear of themsfelyes, when playe&ion the g&mbmg M yu,
or' accompanied'by the. ofher\*strumeflfcs'mever/tive run the ear, and it is
m#*un usu'Miforithe^dmefoOTf to pkysfor many d'aysvand nights in succession.'
| ‘The, Jafransid^ not mote'down'fqfj commit theirdnusic ito*'writing.: the
national airs, of which' 1 have pyself Jcbuntddriabova a hundred;, are preserved
hyr-th|par alone. Thosh .which are-rexhibitedin the: annexed plate
ate Umongrtheumast popular "b u t there dre.a^&rmty -which: are-played j on
oVcasrons, 'of rejoicing and ‘festiMty; i Which it'would', be "difficult to note
down’; ifindeed they* can be called airs at a% the^ouads^produoei^alher
Resembling dhe bhhning.of bdllsthan a'melody, 8 Thus'when h-.-gfeat' man
arrives afcthe native seat; of »'government, rthe tone off &ebugtru,‘g buffaloes
frisking,” nisi playfed,. ahd ■ ai.variety M pth6rs:of the: same uWttffb1, which
"diffuse*.the-:same--kind of joy and gaiety among all assembled;: aSrthb quick
ringing of bells in the„churches:df ^England. " '
A complete setibf. the gdmelam p6bg costs from a thousand to 'sixteen
Hundred.dollars -'([£££§[0, to -butt secondhand setS^rS^requently dispogfed?^
ofips The principal manufacture ia 'at GresiJc, 'jmd7 tk r £ 6 ^ r in particular
furnish;a valuable article-ofdexport. .'■Every; riativs”icMef> in authority
has one or mote,yg(meldns, ‘m d ’there-'a^Tmuneioriile^perfect sets in all the
populous towns- of the Eastern provinces.
In