Slento
This playful, now obsolete, Javanese instrument combines antiquated tuned, knobbed bronze bars with a dragon-shaped frame, designed to appeal to European collectors. A trough beneath the bars serves as a resonating chamber. Today, the slento has been replaced by the slentem, a single octave metallophone with thins, flat bars which are suspended on rope above individual tube resonators. A wood or horn beater used with the slento has given way to a padded, disc-shaped mallet associated with the slentem.
Artwork Details
- Title: Slento
- Source: Henry Hannah (United States, 1840–1900)
- Date: late 19th century
- Geography: Jakarta, Central Java, Indonesia
- Culture: Javanese
- Medium: Wood, metal
- Dimensions: H. 26 7/16 × D. 12 × L. 38 in. (67.2 × 30.5 × 96.5 cm)
- Classification: Idiophone-Struck-bar-metal
- Credit Line: The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments, 1889
- Object Number: 89.4.1462a, b
- Curatorial Department: Musical Instruments
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