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is a musical instrument used to a great extent in a Javanese 
orchestra. It consists of a number of bronze bars of about two 
inches wide and six inches long, of graduated thickness, placed 
side by side across an elaborately carved and painted base and 
which are loosely held in position by means of metal pins. The 
saron is played upon by a small wooden mallet. 
The bonang. — A set of seven kettle-shaped gongs of various 
tones, resting on rattan strips fastened to a carved and painted 
low stand and which is also a Javanese musical instrument. The 
player sits cross-legged upon the ground and plays the bonang by 
means of a padded stick. 
The soeling, a bamboo whistle, which is the only wind instru- 
ment used in a Javanese orchestra. 
There are also in this case, drums from Java and India. 
Case 2. — Is devoted to Javanese musical instruments, these 
being four single gong bonangs ; two very large deep sounding 
gongs suspended from a rack, which are played by a stick having 
at one end a large ball of rubber; and a rehab, a two-stringed 
violin played by the leader of a Javanese orchestra, with a bow of 
loose stretched horse-hair. 
Case 3. — An eighteen bronze-barred saron of a very wide 
register. A seventeen wooden-barred saron. Two gendangs — a 
small drum, forming a part of a Javanese orchestra. The banya, 
dholaka, tabla, midranga or drums of East India. 
Case 4, — An interesting collection of twenty wind and 
stringed musical instruments from India, consisting of the mahat 
vina, which is constructed of two gourds, connecting a horizontal 
rod of bamboo, upon which are stretched seven wires of various 
thickness, these being tuned by an ordinary key, similar to the 
guitar or banjo key, but somewhat larger; the mayuri which has 
eighteen fine wire strings; the kachapi vina is another stringed 
instrument ; likewise the ektara, which has but one string. Other 
very peculiar instruments in this case are the chikara, the sanyogi 
and the surangi, each of which have two sets of strings, one of 
catgut strung over a bridge, and directly above a set of brass 
wires which run through holes in the bridge. 
The wind instruments are chiefly the rana sringa, the puni 
and the benu. 
Case 5. — Reproductions of antique forms of musical instru- 
ments, such as the Elizabethan lute; the rebec, and Arabian 
