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Example sentences for: gongs
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One dalang (puppeteer), accompanied by a band of musicians playing oboe, drums, gongs, and cymbals, acts out all the parts and produces all the different voices.
West of Klungkung, a narrow lane leads to the village of Tihingan, one of only two places in Bali where the gongs for gamelan orchestras are made.
Altman had me hooked from the credits, in which the camera cruises high above an eerie topography--both parched and veined with swamps--while the composer, Mark Isham, serves up off-the-beat thumps and hollow brass gongs, and fragments of cell-phone conversations remain just on the far side of audibility.
(Danny Elfman's crashing gongs and chopping-blade strings pound your head, too.)
The orchestra of rebab (bowed flute), tawak-tawk (gongs), and gunang (double-headed drums) plays music with a distinctly Middle Eastern flavor.