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Gamelan in Bali refers to both the instruments and the group of people who play these instruments.
«Gamelan» groups’ members are usually people from the same «banjar», where a sense of unity among
the people is far more crucial than individual creativity.
Within these music groups, Balinese music is created, developed,
improved, extended, and maintained to the highest quality and technique.
Gamelan instruments are believed by Balinese to have spiritual powers. Special rituals and offerings
are therefore executed before they are played in order to respect the spirits that reside inside them.
Each piece of these instruments is created with great care by highly skilled bronze-smiths who even
until today still use the traditional methods handed down to them from their ancestors.
