Category: Indo Traditional Musical Instruments

Angklung

Angklung

| November 18, 2011

Angklung is a musical instrument multitonal (double pitched) that are traditionally grown in the Sundanese-speaking community in the western part of Java Island. This musical instrument made of bamboo, sounded shaken by the way (the sound caused by impact bodies of bamboo pipes) so as to produce sounds that vibrate in the arrangement of tones [...]

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Gamelan

Gamelan

| November 18, 2011

Gamelan is a musical ensemble that usually accentuate metallophones, xylophone, drums, and gongs. The term gamelan refers to the instrument / tool, which is a unified whole that is realized and sounded together. The word itself comes from Gamelan Java language gamel which means hitting / beating, followed by an ending that makes it a [...]

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Siter

Siter

| November 18, 2011

Siter and Celempung is a stringed musical instrument in the Javanese gamelan. It has to do also with the harp in Sundanese gamelan. Siter and Celempung each had 11 and 13 pairs of strings, spanned both sides of the resonator box. His trademark tone of the strings tuned pelog and other strings in a tone [...]

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