The Hull Music Service took delivery of our gamelan, Kyai Sri Jaladri Naga, in February 2002. It now lives at the Albemarle Music Centre in Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire and it is used regularly for workshops with school children, music students and adults, including those with Disabilities and Special Needs.
Chris Maynard
Head of the Hull Music Service
We are based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. We use our lovely gamelan for community groups and often with people with disabilities, so it’s become a little battered over the years, but it still attracts a huge amount of attention and it is still beautiful. We play it outside in the summer some days, in parks and outside the City Hall and it visits places like museums and schools. It is usually based in Stranmillis College.
Our gamelan has travelled all over Northern Ireland but it recognises no borders. It has been down to Cork, to Galway and to Dublin in the Republic of Ireland where it has brought the same pleasure to the groups who play it!
Nikhil Dally has an innovative early-years music education program, Stepping Notes, which includes specially commissioned gamelan-based instruments, including a slentho with 3 keys, a demung with 5 keys, and a saron with 8 keys, with diatonic pitches. Additional keys for the demung and saron were ordered so that some pitches could be replaced to play different songs.
Website: https://www.dally.org.uk/SNintro.htm
The gamelan ordered by the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in 1995 is currently housed at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The pelog set is actively played by Naga Mas. The gamelan will be used in the Conservatoire’s teaching and community outreach programs.
In September 2015, they are planning to celebrate the 25th anniversary of gamelan in Scotland.
Gamelan Naga Mas
Campbell House
Gartnavel Royal Hospital
1055 Great Western Road
Glasgow G12 0XH
info@nagamas.co.uk
https://www.nagamas.co.uk/
Brian Noyes has recently purchased the gamelan originally sent to Atlantic College. He is in the process of establishing a gamelan teaching program in the west of Wales.