gong;
gong-stand;
model;
gamelan
- Museum number
- As1939,04.20
- Description
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Register 1939:
Composite musical instrument: model gamelan consisting of a wooden stand, carved and painted bright red and golden, the cross bar in the form of two intertwined serpents with a bird standing in the centre (one head and bird missing; the remaining head swivels); supporting two gongs held apart by two painted wooden struts; one upright model broken.
- Production date
- 1750s-1824 (?)
- Dimensions
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Height: 36.50 centimetres
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Width: 34 centimetres
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Depth: 14 centimetres
- Curator's comments
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Register 1939:
Java, Indonesia.
The residue of the collection of Sir Stamford Raffles, formed in 1810-24 and presented to the Museum in 1859. Mrs Drake is the grand daughter of the Rev. Raffles Flint, nephew and heir of Sir Stamford.
See Sir Stamford Raffles, "History of Java", chapter 8 and plate for 'gamelan salindro' orchestra. J. Kunst, "The Music of Java".
Keys, gongs, etc may not have been allotted to the correct instruments.
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According to Jeune Scott-Kemball in a 1976 letter, the scaling of the gamelan instruments was determined by Jaap Kunst in 1938. All the instruments except one were slendro. The exception is pelog. The ordering of the keys in the scale was determined by a Javanese musician.
- Location
- On display (G1/wp122)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1994, National Museum of Singapore, 'Raffles Reviewed: Sir Stamford Raffles'
2019 29 Jan-May, Singapore, Asian Civilisations Museum, Raffles in Southeast Asia
2019-2020 Sept-Jan, Gallery 91, Sir Stamford Raffles
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1939,04.20