An instrument typical of the Batak districts is a very well-constructed lute with two strings made of pain fibres, which are plucked. We come across large and small gongs, which are partly built in this area and partly imported from Java. The Toba Bataks have a group of drums tuned to different pitches of tile scale in use there. As far as we know, rows of drums-, tuned in this way only exist in the Batak districts and in Burma. These drums are beaten with sticks; the music thus produced, with its carefully measured rhythm and canonical develop merit of the melody, appeals to European cars.

On Borneo we find instruments which are quite out of tile ordinary, especially amongst the Dayaks who live in the interior of this island. In the districts settled by Malayans and Chinese indigenous music its unknown, and there are also no instrument of special interest. In tile south, in the area of Bandjermasin and Martapura, Javanese influence dating from tile time of Madjapahit supremacy can be observed. Tile musical instruments in use belong to the ancient type as -lie ancient gamelan instruments of eastern Java.

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