Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Javanese musical instrument of the xylophone class, consisting of sixteen strips of resonant wood or metal fastened loosely on strings, and mounted on a concave wooden box or frame. The wooden form is called
gambang kayu , the metal form gambang gongso.
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The metal harmonicon is known in Javanese language as the _gambang_, and I have no better name to propose.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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