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\section{Brief Overview of Gamelan music}
Gamelan is a traditional style of music from Indonesia. The word ‘Gamelan’ translated into english roughly means ‘Orchestra’, but within this paper ‘Gamelan’ will refer to the music culture itself, rather than the collection of instruments. To refer to the collection of instruments I will use ‘Gamelan orchestra’. Gamelan orchestras are percussive, and largely contain gongs and
metallophones . metallophones\footnote{Metallophones being instruments with metal bars, and Gongs being instruments with metal disks.
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Gamelan orchestras, quite unlike the ensembles in other music cultures, are each uniquely tuned. There is no Gamelan-wide tuning standard, only orchestra specific tunings. This means that one could not use a Gamelan instrument from one orchestra in a another orchestra, for the instruments would not be in tune with each other. This is in contrast with European music culture, where every instrument, regardless as to what ensemble it plays in, is tuned the same. One could say, European tuning is a culture wide standard, and Gamelan tuning is an ensemble wide standard.