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GAMELAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("gamelan" is a kind of...):
ensemble (a group of musicians playing or singing together)
Domain region:
Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia (a republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions)