Rebab

Rebab Played by: Sumarsam. From Wesleyan University's Virtual Instrument Museum
http://learningobjects.wesleyan.edu/vim

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[jkeg39]

@GatoradeIsNotJuice It's not out of tune dear sir, the musical scale and pitch approach is different in music of this origin. When compared to western scale, it is most definately "out of tune" but it's not in the western scale is it?

[rockguitar101]

@GatoradeIsNotJuice youre an idiot. hes an incredible celebrated player who's written books about gamelan and been playing at wesleyan university for 40 years

[rahmiand]

he plays gendhing wilujeng mean peace or saviour

[Hikikomori013]

@GatoradeIsNotJuice I, for one, would be glad to learn more about this music. How long have you been playing Javanese scales, and how do they differ from various Indian scales?

I've been listening to a lot of Gagaku lately, and those scales have been difficult to wrap my head around.

[tapasudana]

tuning your ears with the sound, not always ended in tuning your mind with others. The path of wisdom is to know others, their tradition, their culture, their "NATURE". The time you spent in "art" not a garantie to make you a wise and well-harmonious behavior in life. Understand oneself is illumination. How to carry /stand under (understand) others ? ??? Music and its instrument could be just a path to comprehend (as you like, how to go on ) . peace in mind, in the cosmos in harmony, in tune

[GatoradeIsNotJuice]

@MrNousernames need i quote what i said before: "i've been playing indian classical music since i could walk, Music is the biggest centrepoint of my life." indian classical music is laden with quarter-tones. there is a big difference between those, and notes simply out of tune. I've heard REAL gamalan music, which is blissful. this man playing is simply a novice.

[opus88888]

@GatoradeIsNotJuice Definitely you don't have a quarter tone perfect pitch.

[MrNousernames]

those "Dreadfully out of tune" notes are called quarter tones and a real "musician" would know of their importance to eastern and other world music

[SiKedek]

@GatoradeIsNotJuice Please search for Pak Cokro/Chokro, a famed composer for Javanese gamelan (who passed away a few years ago) - there's a documentary series where he talks about his experiences and philosophies about composing.

[SiKedek]

@GatoradeIsNotJuice What do you mean "not a musician's music"? Just because the tuning doesn't fit within Western tuning doesn't mean that its exponents are not *musicians* - these people are able to talk about their music and practice - for hours on end. Sure it's not Western music - nor is it anything close to classical Indian music - it's its own musical realm. (That's why it's a bit of a disadvantage to have "perfect pitch" - you have to unlearn that for many world musics, esp. gamelan.)