Nicholas – gamelan teacher inspired by P. Ramlee movies

Gaga over gamelan: Nicholas (seated, centre) playing gamelan with his students during a performance at an Orang Asli village in Iskandar Puteri, Johor.

JOHOR BARU: During the day, B. Nicholas works as a security guard but on Thursday and Friday nights, he teaches children the gamelan.

The 23-year-old said that he got into the gamelan, playing a percussion instrument that uses metallophones, while learning the traditional Malay art of self-defence silat during his secondary school days at SMK Gelang Patah.