
Caruk
Our smallest ensemble with just two musicians, Caruk is one of Bali’s rarest gamelan art-forms and is only found in a handful of villages, including
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family-based gamelan and dance centre
We have more than 25 gamelan sets at Mekar Bhuana, with 21 at Mekar Bhuana in Bali and four at Mekar Bhuana Aotearoa in New Zealand.
Our smallest ensemble with just two musicians, Caruk is one of Bali’s rarest gamelan art-forms and is only found in a handful of villages, including
View more >>We have one Javanese gamelan set at Mekar Bhuana: a very old set that based on its organology, patina and ornamentation dates to the first
View more >>In 2019, we restored and reconstructed a very unusal set that we have called ‘Angklung Lombok’ because of its provenance – however, these types of
View more >>Our first Semara Patangian (Pelegongan ) set is at Mekar Bhuana Centre in Bali. It is an antique, very complete ensemble that Vaughan Hatch acquired
View more >>Semara Patangian kami di Selandia Baru unik karena merupakan satu-satunya di luar Bali dengan tatanan bilah dan instrumentasi kuno.
View more >>The Seven-tone Semara Pagulingan set in New Zealand also partly old but has a higher tuning than our one in Bali. The ensemble is both
View more >>Our Six-tone Semara Pagulingan is not yet complete, as we still need to fundraise more to make the ornate wooden casings, the design of which
View more >>In mediaeval Bali (circa 1600-1906) Semara Pagulingan (also known as Semar Pegulingan) was an important part of the Balinese courts. Accompanying court rituals and Pendet
View more >>Our five-tone Semara Pagulingan set is our antique Semara Patangian set with a terompong, ponggang-kempyung, kangsi and grantang added, and the gender rambat removed. It
View more >>Purchased in 2012, our first Selonding set is modelled on the Bugbug formation but with additional instruments found in the set from Merajan Selonding in
View more >>Our Old-Fashioned Angklung set is characterised both by its age (estimated to be from the 1800s) as well as its old-fashioned instrumentation (hence the name:
View more >>We have seven antique Gender Wayang sets at Mekar Bhuana, but only four sets have casings. These four sets have been lovingly restored by founder
View more >>Our Gambang set is one of the most recent additions at Mekar Bhuana. It is in the Bebandem, Karangasem style and is the most complete
View more >>Our Gong Bheri ensemble includes the following instrumentation: 1 x bheri, 1 x sungu, 1 x bende, 1 x tawa-tawa, 1 x rebab The ensemble
View more >>Our Baleganjur set is around 40-50 years old and is made up of the following instrumentation: 1 gong ageng, 1 x reong, 3 pairs of
View more >>Our most light-hearted ensemble that, while not a focus of any of our reconstruction of restoration projects, serves to support our centre as one of
View more >>We have completed hundreds of documentation, reconstruciton and repatriation projects since 1997.
After gaining funding from Lottery in New Zealand to have a pair of gender barangan made for our Semara Patangian ensemble in Wellington, we are
View more >>We are in the process of trying to get funding to embark on a restoration project of a historic Javanese gamelan with Chinese connections and
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