*gong chime of Java, formed of a number of bossed gongs with wide rims, placed open side down on a wooden frame, isolated on taut strings. The gongs are often called bonang kettles.
Sometimes earthenware resonators are placed underneath them. Nowadays a bonang usually consists of 2 rows of 7 gongs, but in sléndro music twice 5 or 6 may be used. In pélog the compass is always 2 uncompleted octs.; the sléndro bonang with twice 6 gongs has a closed...
