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3.3 PANERUS and PEKING
3.3. 1 Panerus
GAMELAN SALjgNDRO/P^LOG : PANERUS & PEKING
The panerus is the same instrument as the Javanese demung {not to be confused
with the Javanese saron panerus, or peking). "Terus" means "to keep on" or
"continually". "Panerus" means "that which keeps on continually". The
panerus often plays relatively fast figuration, unlike the Javanese demung.
The following three sections describe three different techniques on panerus.
As far as I am aware these techniques do not have specific names.
3.3.1.1
In a fast 1 wilet (sawilet gancang), the panerus may realize the patokan
along the same lines as saron I sometimes does in takol lancar (see section
3.1.3):
Kulu-kulu Bern (Kulu-kulu Gancang) fast 1 wilet
panerus:
P P P
3 1 4| 1 3 1 2| 1 3 1 2( 1
P
3
G
1 4|
As we saw in section 3.1.3, this is a kind of hierarchical arrangement of the
goong note (g), kenong (n), pancer (c) and pangaget (k):
panerus: g| k c k N| k
P P P G
c k nl k c k Gi
In Bungur the patokan is 4 (5) 4 (2), the pancer is 3 and the pangaget is 1.
On the panerus, Bungur might be realized as follows:
Bungur fast 1 wilet
panerus:
3.3.1.2
P
3
P
3 2|
P
3
P
3
The next technique is similar to the one just described. The panerus may
play the notes of the patokan with three on-beat repetitions of the pancer
(c) interspersed. It sounds a bit silly on its own, but in combination with
kemprangan in the bonang you get a nice interlocking pattern:
4|
4|
P
3
P
3
P
4|
P
4|
P
3
P
3
G
2|
G
5i