page_title: Slendro
hierarchical_section_title: Slendro
caption_attribution_description: English: Slendro tuning system. "The representations of slendro and pelog tuning systems in Western notation shown above should not be regarded in any sense as absolute. Not only is it difficult to convey non-Western scales with Western notation, but also because, in general, no two gamelan sets will have exactly the same tuning, either in pitch or in interval structure. There are no Javanese standard forms of these two tuning systems." Lindsay, Jennifer (1992). Javanese Gamelan, p.39-41. ISBN 0-19-588582-1.
context_page_description: Slendro is a pentatonic scale, the older of the two most common scales used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pélog. In Javanese the term is said to derive either from "Sailendra", the name of the ruling family in the eighth and ninth centuries when Borobudur was built, or from its earlier being given by the god Sang Hyang Hendra.
context_section_description: Slendro (Javanese: ꦱ꧀ꦭꦺꦤ꧀ꦢꦿꦺꦴ, romanized: Sléndro) (Sundanese: ᮞᮜᮦᮔ᮪ᮓ᮪ᮛᮧ, romanized: Saléndro) is a pentatonic scale, Play  the older of the two most common scales (laras) used in Indonesian gamelan music, the other being pélog. In Javanese the term is said to derive either from "Sailendra", the name of the ruling family in the eighth and ninth centuries when Borobudur was built, or from its earlier being given by the god Sang Hyang Hendra.
caption: Slendro approximated in Western notation.[1] About this soundPlay (help·info)
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