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The reyong (also spelled reong) is a musical instrument used in Balinese gamelan. It consists of a long row of metal gongs suspended on a frame.

One of Gamelan Instruments of Bali
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The reyong (also spelled reong) is a musical instrument used in Balinese gamelan. It consists of a long row of metal gongs suspended on a frame. In gamelan gong kebyar, it is played by four players at once, each with two mallets. Often the individual pots can be removed from the frame and played individually as bonang in beleganjur. 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Reyong”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

reyong is Indonesian musical instrument, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

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