Comments on: You need a 1.5 ton gamelan, and I know where you can get it

By: TFox

TFox — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 06:03:00 +0000

Hollywood is far away, but the Emil Richards percussion collection might be able to absorb it and put it to good use. Lots of those instruments get used in films. http://www.emilrichards.com/biography/instruments.php

By: Dana Carson

Dana Carson — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:55:00 +0000

UMBC has had a gamelan ensemble for the last 30 years and they are right down the road. Gina Beck is the director http://www.umbc.edu/music/faculty/beck.php

By: tonysteve

tonysteve — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:06:00 +0000

We would love to put it to use at Jacksonville University in Florida.
Email me at gsteve@ju.edu

The gamelan would have a loving home until you wish it to be returned.

All the best.

Tony

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:41:00 +0000

Ah, the carefree days of colonialism

By: SomeGuyNamedMark

SomeGuyNamedMark — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 15:40:00 +0000

The MIT Gamelan Galak Tika might be interested.

http://www.galaktika.org/

By: Beanolini

Beanolini — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 10:54:00 +0000

Here in NE England, there's a gamelan in a university museum, one in a concert hall, one owned by a county music education service (for loan to schools), and one owned by a community association and/or school, (used for school classes, community groups, and management training). Surely there's a similar organisation in the Washington DC area that would like this one?

By: Christopher Arnold

Christopher Arnold — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:26:00 +0000

Gamelatron is the best home for this collection. Let it live through Taylor’s work. I’ve seen his installations, executed without pretense, pure music. Let this collection travel. Let Taylor be the shepherd. He can carry this burden lightly to audiences not seen within four walls. Let this collection fly! It’s what the original smiths would have barely been able to dream of. Metal on wings of inspiration. Played by ghosts perhaps. But shedding their human summoners, these gongs can reach new ears few could have dreamed of reaching.

By: bingobangoboy

bingobangoboy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 05:09:00 +0000

The Dutch usually just melted them down & carried off the bronze. Increases gamelan portability by over 250%, at a negligible cost to one’s immortal soul. Highly recommended!

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:54:00 +0000

If you don’t have room to store a gamelan, how on earth will you have room to store a cloud? Those things are huge.

By: kaiido

kaiido — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 04:04:00 +0000

What about cloud storage? Can’t this Gamelan be disassembled?

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:12:00 +0000

Because geography is hard!

By: Bloo

Bloo — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:31:00 +0000

Florida State University has a gamelan, maybe they want a spare…

E-mail of the professor in charge of the gamelan ensemble:

Em Bee A Kay A Enn AT Eff Ess You Dot Eee Dee Ewe

By: Teresa Nielsen Hayden

Teresa Nielsen Hayden — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:16:00 +0000

Time is a factor. Jon was the Resident Researcher at the Joss Institute, so he’s lost both home and job.

By: zuludaddy

zuludaddy — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:10:00 +0000

Wesleyan (in CT, to forestall any potential confusion) has a gamelan hall built to house its own, and a great world music program, to boot…

By: Grace Ghearing

Grace Ghearing — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:56:00 +0000

I have actually played on this Emory Gamelan, in the picture. I know a handful of individuals and universities who would be interested in this orchestra.

By: ChuckTV

ChuckTV — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:56:00 +0000

Why is this post tagged TIBET?

By: Steve Baldwin

Steve Baldwin — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:41:00 +0000

Cory, before I read this I wasn’t in the market for a gamelan. Thanks for sharing.

By: johanvz

johanvz — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:36:00 +0000

IIRC, on occasion, Jon has played (gamelans) at the Indonesian embassy in D.C., so i would assume that possibility didn’t work out if we’re reading this.

By: Gyrofrog

Gyrofrog — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:34:00 +0000

The embassy hosted gamelan concerts at one point, though I haven’t checked in a while.

The Joss website says it (or the place where they receive mail) is a few miles from my home. I have a basement full of unused instruments, and I promised my wife I’d re-do the floor down there, so I’m kind of on the fence about this one.

EDIT: Sad thing is that there may have been room to spare for the giant Humpty Hump head.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:23:00 +0000

Living in Washington, why doesn’t he ask around the Indonesian embassy? Probably more interest in gamelans there than most places in America.

I would take it myself, but my apartment is small.

By: hugh crawford

hugh crawford — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:21:00 +0000

When I was at CalArts they had two gamelan ensembles ( what’s the plural of gamelan ? Is it a noun or an adjective?
Anyway they had two of them in use 24/7 and it made me thankful no one could hear the kids learning how to use the Buchlas. I’m always surprised there aren’t any “bang along” jokes in Pixar movies. Maybe they need a third one?

By: Gavin Smith

Gavin Smith — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:56:00 +0000

The Evergreen State College!