{"id":474,"date":"2017-01-16T15:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-16T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/?page_id=474"},"modified":"2018-02-19T20:53:07","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T20:53:07","slug":"kemong","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/kemong\/","title":{"rendered":"kemong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-476\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMGA0910.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"The kemong (left) of the gamelan sl\u00e9ndro K.K. Medarsih and the kempyang (right) of the gamelan p\u00e9log K.K. Mikatsih.\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"The kemong (left) of the gamelan sl\u00e9ndro K.K. Medarsih and the kempyang (right) of the gamelan p\u00e9log K.K. Mikatsih.\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-476 \" src=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMGA0910-300x227.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"301\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMGA0910-300x227.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMGA0910-768x580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMGA0910-1024x773.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMGA0910-1200x906.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 398px) 85vw, 398px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <em>kemong<\/em> (left) of the <em>gamelan sl\u00e9ndro<\/em> K.K. Medharsih and the <em>kempyang<\/em> (right) of the <em>gamelan p\u00e9log<\/em> K.K. Mikatsih<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A pair of small, horizontally-resting bronze gongs each with a turned back rim and a raised central boss. Struck with a thinly-padded stick beater. Produces two penetrating middle-register pitches that are sounded in alternation with one another. Found only in common practice <em>sl\u00e9ndro<\/em> gamelans and, in the Yogyakarta <em>kraton,<\/em> only three of the eight such gamelans include this instrument.\u00a0Note that the <em>kemong<\/em> looks very much like the <em>kempyang<\/em> found in <em>p\u00e9log <\/em>gamelans; they differ in that the <em>kemong<\/em> pair of gongs are of the<em> setren<\/em> type (relatively flat top) and the <em>kempyang<\/em> of the <em>jaler<\/em> type (relatively peaked top).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_475\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-475\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-475 \" src=\"http:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0087-300x225.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0087-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0087-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0087-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_0087-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <em>kemong<\/em> (far right) of <em>gamelan sl\u00e9ndro<\/em> K.K. Medharsih being performed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A pair of small, horizontally-resting bronze gongs each with a turned back rim and a raised central boss. Struck with a thinly-padded stick beater. Produces two penetrating middle-register pitches that are sounded in alternation with one another. Found only in common practice sl\u00e9ndro gamelans and, in the Yogyakarta kraton, only three of the eight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/kemong\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;kemong&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-474","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/474\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vetter.sites.grinnell.edu\/gamelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}