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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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