Again, amazing skill is required. Other than musical style and the use of the gender, the rest of the instruments are the same as the gamelan gong. But this old type gamelan and its repertoire can hardly be found any more in the wake of the more popular, fast-paced gong kebyar style. One has but to look, they say, at the impending disappearance of musical and dance traditions of other cultures of the world, where outside influence has crept in and gradually replaced native dance and music. Balinese culture has never been static.
Music is no exception.
With many foreign students devoted to learning the music of Bali, the gamelan inevitably enters into the musical thought of player and composer and becomes part of the mainstream of world music.