Balinese gamelan orchestras are staffed by the whole community, not professionals.
Evidence
In Bali there are no professional musicians; the orchestras are staffed by all the able-bodied of the community, and they strike up in the evening after work and play late into the night. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 849
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to Schafer’s argument elsewhere about the decline of communal, participatory music in modernity.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 849