MEP 2025

Question 1

Saron Barung

Answer 1

-6 or 7 thick metal keys resting over a trough resonator
-Played using a wooden mallet ,struck and damped with fingers

Question 2

Saron Panerus

Answer 2

-6 or 7 thick metal keys resting over a trough resonator
-Played using a water buffalo horn mallet,struck and damped with fingers

Question 3

Gender Barung

Answer 3

-13 or 14 thin metal keys suspended by strings over cylindrical resonators
-Played using two padded disc mallets,struck and damped with HANDS

Question 4

Slenthem

Answer 4

-6 or 7 thin metal keys suspended by strings over cylindrical resonators
-Played using one padded disc mallet,struck and damped with fingers

Question 5

Bonang

Answer 5

-Sets of 10,12 or 14 kettle gongs resting horizontally in two parallel rows in a wooden frame
-Played using two padded stick beaters

Question 6

Gong Ageng

Answer 6

-Largest hanging gong that is 1M in diameter and suspended vertically from a wooden frame
-Played with a round padded disc mallet

Question 7

Kempul

Answer 7

-Smallest hanging gong
-Played using round padded mallet

Question 8

Kenong

Answer 8

-Largest kettle gong that rests horizontally in a wooden frame
-Played using a padded stick beater

Question 9

Kethuk

Answer 9

-Small kettle gong with a flat surface around the central boss
-Played using a padded stick beater

Question 10

Kempyang

Answer 10

-Small kettle gong with one
-flat and one curved concentric
surface area
around the central boss
-Played using two padded stick beaters

Question 11

Kendhang

Answer 11

-Double-headed barrel drum with two leather heads laces onto wooden frame.
-Wooden tapering cylinder which is hollow in the middle
-Played using hands

Question 12

Rebab

Answer 12

-Wooden heart-shaped body with stretched skin
-Two stringed vertical spiked fiddle with a wide wooden bridge and no fingerboard

Question 13

Female voice

Answer 13

Pesindhen

Question 14

Male voice

Answer 14

Gerong