They also make wooden gongs, or drums. They used to make wooden fishhooks, clubs, spears and bows.
A ring of slots is punched out beneath each of the bell gongs.
The sound is out of proportion to the metal used, and is inferior to that of the Shan and Burmese gongs.
So it seems that arts programs are not just banned from primetime but also from the big gongs!
The Gamelan is a beautiful set of musical instruments comprising of bronze gongs and metallophones.
