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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.
The atmosphere of civic pride and civic hypocrisy, the mingled air of awe and contempt toward governmental institutions, rings not the bell of cliché but many eerie tintinnabulations: the gongs and chimes of public life, the distinct sounds of what we say, what we know we mean and what we don't know we mean.
The molten bronze is poured into stone molds to form rough discs, which are then hammered and heated and hammered again until they finally take the shape of gongs.
It’s essential that the craftsmen who make the gongs have a musical ear so that they are able to hear whether the sets of gongs are suitable for the five-tone Balinese scale.
It is also helpful to know that the masks, painted faces, and costumes identify each character’s social role and personality, and that the live music, with its gongs and cymbals, often functions like a film score to emphasize the action on stage.