Traditional | Suhirdjan: Reverberations

Nancy Cooper

When I was doing fieldwork in Yogyakarta in 1989 and 1990, I commissioned a small slendro Yogyanese gamelan from Ki Suhirdjan. Due to budget and space constraints, I requested a…

Jakarta International School

The gamelan mas Hirdjan made for JIS is housed at the Pondok Indah Campus. It is used by 5-12 year-olds from over 24 countries. Gamelan is part of the music…

International School of Amsterdam

Gamelan continues to be a constant thread of the Music programme here at ISA from Middle School to 12th Grade providing a real-life entrance into a world and a culture…

Gamelan Pacifica

In 1987, Gamelan Pacifica director, Jarrad Powell, commissioned the building of a new gamelan in Java to expand the instrumentation of their ensemble. The new gamelan was a full slendro/pelog…

Open Arts

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,…

Toronto District School Board

Though I didn’t know him very well personally, I will never forget Suhirdjan’s innovative spirit. He was of immeasurable help guiding me through my first gamelan ordering experience in 2000-2001.…

American School of the Hague

The school gamelan is taught every day in different classes for one and a half months each semester. Students in grades 6, 7 and 8 learn gamelan in their World…

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…

Marvin Goldman

Marvin Goldman purchased a gender barung (pelog) in 2001, a gender panerus in 2006 and two more gender panerus in 2012. One gender panerus slendro is now part of Gamelan…

St Aloysius College

At St Aloysius College we have taken gamelan into our heart! We are grateful to Mas Suhirdjan for making and tuning our gamelan for us. His photo is on the…