Siter
Picture Credit: Judith Becker.
Traditional Music In Modern Java: Gamelan in a Changing Society, p.4.
A musician is playing a Siter
Picture Credit: Neil Sorrell. A
Guide to the Gamelan.
Siter is another instrument that play the elaborations of the melody. 'Siter" came from the Dutch word "citer," In English, as "zither." It is a plucked string instrument with an oblong box resonator. Usually a Siter has eleven or twelve pairs of unison strings.
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