Gamelan Reong Bali

Reyong is one of the instruments that are shaped like a monkey / cam. Generally rickety is made from filigree material (a mixture of pure tin and copper) but some are made from iron or plates. The color of the reong pencon is generally golden depending on the material used.

gamelan instruments, one tungguh reong there are several pency reyong adjusting to the many tones used by the gamelan instrument. The low and low pitch produced by a reyong pencon is determined by the small size of the pencon and the concave convex of the reyong. The greater the pencon reong, the lower the tone produced, and the more convex pencon reong, the higher the tone produced.

In gong kebyar, one is really tidy using twelve reong pencons with a 3 octave tone region, with an arrangement of tones of 5, 7, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, read ndeng, ndung, ndang, nding, ndong, ndeng, ndung, ndang, nding, ndong, ndeng, and ndung. The twelve reyong pencons are placed on a buffer commonly called "Pelawah". All of the reong pencons are tied with a rope to the "gegorok" hole (the hole that is at the bottom of the pencon). The placement of reyong tones lined up from the low notes to the high notes (from left to right), according to their large to small (nirus) size.

Reong is played by four drummers using each of the two pelvis on the right and left hands. The game technique applied is tehnikubit-ubitan which in the gamelan ranks is commensurate with cecandetan, kotekan, tetorekan which refers to plain and sangsih techniques in the Prakempa ejection called "Gagebug". Gagebug rereongan called I elephant mina name. The first reyong player and third (from the left) play a plain punch, while the second and fourth players play sangsih punches. Each reong player has a tone area to be able to play the techniques above.