The Gamelan Ensemble

This six-piece ensemble, comprised of the Pegasus and its Addendum, Imbarimba, Moonlight Cyls, Bass/Contrabass Marimba and Basso Profundo is entirely compatible. The Gamelan ensemble allows people to play music together — right away — whether they have played music before or not. The instruments can be played (and purchased) individually, or as a partial or complete ensemble.

Music is a doorway to a state of expanded awareness, beauty and sensitivity — and it’s just plain fun to enter into the oneness of ensemble playing.

The Freenotes Gamelan ensemble offers a shortcut to "the jam".

Playing a traditional instrument takes time and effort to master the scales and read sheet music. Then, it takes a second level of mastery to play written music with other musicians. A third level of musical mastery comes when you can sit down with other players and spontaneously play music together, improvising by ear — "jam". In most cases, it takes years of study and practice to get to this third level.

The Gamelan ensemble takes you to the third level — "the jam" — in about 15 minutes!

Playing music by ear is easy with the Gamelan ensemble because all the notes go together. Unencumbered by rules and sheets of music, the players can respond to each other musically — in the moment where music is fresh and alive. The Gamelan ensemble allows the natural musician to emerge quickly and effortlessly.

These six instruments represent a western-scale version of the Gamelan village orchestras originating in Indonesia several thousand years ago. The Gamelan ensemble employs complimentary pentatonic and diatonic scales so all the notes within the entire ensemble are in harmony.

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