![]() ![]() In this manner, in the course of the evening he unrolls several scrolls one at a time. Then, speaking and singing, he narrates the episode in more detail. ![]() Performances, mostly in small open-sided pavilions or auditoriums, take place according to the following pattern:The dalang gives a sign, the small gamelan orchestra with drummer and a few knobbed gongs and a musician with a rebab (a violin-like instrument held vertically) begins to play, and the dalang unrolls the first scroll of the story. There are two sets, hand-painted on hand-made bark cloth, that are still owned by families who have inherited them from many generations ago, in Pacitan and Wonogiri, both villages in Central Java. A few scrolls of images remain from those times, found today in museums. They have also been subject to the same fate-they have nearly vanished, although there are still some groups of artists who support wayang beber in places such as (Solo) in Central Java.Chinese visitors to Java during the 15th century described a storyteller who unrolled scrolls and told stories that made the audience laugh or cry. ![]() Wayang beber has strong similarities to narratives in the form of that were common at annual fairs in medieval and early modern. ![]()
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