Category: Indo Traditional Musical Instruments
Tambo
Tambo is a traditional musical instrument of Aceh. Tambo Iboh made of rods, cowhide, and rattan as a means of stretching the skin. The shape is a kind of drum and is played by being hit. In ancient times, legend serves as a communication tool to indicate the arrival times of prayer and to gather [...]
Tifa
Tifa is a typical instrument of Maluku and Papua. Tifa is similar to musical instruments being played also drum beaten way. This instrument is made from a timber and its contents emptied or removed on one side of the tip is covered, and usually cover used deer skin that has been dried to produce a [...]
Talempong
Talempong is a traditional percussion instruments Minangkabau tribe. The shape is similar to the instruments in the gamelan bonang. Talempong can be made of brass, but some are made of wood and stone. Currently talempong of this type of brass is more widely used. Talempong circular with a diameter of 15 to 17.5 inches, perforated [...]
Gendrang
Gendrum is a musical hybrid between Gendang and drum designed by Siswo Harsono in 1992. Musical instruments are usually applied in the arts Gambang Semarang and can also be applied in other arts such as jaipongan, Mix, or dangdut. Gendrum jaipong consists of a drum, a drum stick, two ketipung (panepak), two ketibung (large ketipung), [...]
Karinding
Karinding is a tool used as a tool parents used to repel pests in rice fields. now describes as a musical instrument for producing sound. and the tool reputedly used as a tool that has a parent (ancestor) since the days before the discovery Kacapi, the age lute itself has reached more than five hundred [...]
Saron
Saron or ricik also commonly called, is one of the gamelan instruments including balungan family. In one set of gamelan usually had 4 saron, and all have versions pelog and slendro. Saron produce a tone one octave higher than demung, with a smaller physical size. Hit the saron is usually made of wood, with a [...]
Kenong
The kenong is one of the instruments used in the Indonesian gamelan. It is technically a kind of gong, but is placed on its side and is roughly as tall as it is wide. It thus is similar to the bonang, kempyang and ketuk, which are also cradled gongs. Kenongs are generally much larger than [...]
Sasando
Sasando is a stringed musical instrument. This musical instrument comes from the island of Rote, East Nusa Tenggara. Literally Sasando according to the origin of the name he said in Rote, sasandu, which means a tool that vibrates or rings. It is said sasando use among community Rote since the 7th century. There is similarity [...]
Kacapi
Kacapi a Sundanese musical instruments being played as the main instrument in Sundanese or Mamaos Tembang Kacapi Cianjuran and flute. Kacapi in Sundanese word also refers to plants Sentul, which is believed the wood used to make musical instruments Kacapi. Kacapi parahu is a resonance box of the bottom of a hole resonance to allow [...]
Kendang
Kendang, kendhang, atau gendang is the Central Javanese gamelan instruments in which one of its main functions to set the rhythm. This instrument sounded by hand, without tools bantu.Jenis small drums called ketipung, a medium called the drum ciblon / Chebar. The couple named ketipung there is one more commonly called drums drums gedhe kalih. [...]
