DEPARTMENT OF MONOGRAPHIC COLLECTIONS. 
The collections in this Department are isolated for purposes of 
convenience. At present it comprises two divisions viz., Musical 
Instruments and Printing and Graphic Arts. 
HALL 1. 
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. 
The collection in this Hall consists of musical instruments 
from Java and India, also a series of reproductions of antique 
instruments. 
Case 1 . — Contains several sarons of various sizes. The saron 
is a musical instrument used to a great extent in a Javanese or- 
chestra. 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, midrangaor drums of East India. 
