children playing Angklung

Angklung

Angklung is a traditional musical instrument from West Java Indonesia, made of bamboo, which sounded shaken by (the sound caused by the clash of bodies bamboo pipes) so as to produce a sound that vibrates in the arrangement of tones 2, 3, and 4 tones in every size, large and small. Barrel (tone) musical instrument Angklung as Sundanese traditional music is mostly salendro and pelog.
UNESCO, THE UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, has recognized “Angklung” the Indonesian bamboo musical instrument and music as “World Heritage”, after this world body’s recognition of Batik, the Wayang puppet and the Keris dagger as uniquely Indonesian, said Wardiyatmo, Secretary General of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, as reported by Antara.
UNESCO’s official announcement to include “Angklung” in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity will take place on 18 November 2010. Angklung is the bamboo musical instrument of West Java, where each instrument when shaken produces a specific tone. An entire set played by a group of people can produce beautiful music together. UNESCO has recognized a total of 890 world sites, said Wardiyatmo, in which 689 are in cultural heritage, 176 are natural heritage, and 25 are a blend of culture and natural heritage. Of these, Indonesia has thus far attained 11 sites, with 4 in natural world heritage, 3 in cultural heritage, and 4 in intangible heritage.
Four recognized in Indonesia as World Heritage in Nature are the Ujung Kulon National Park in Banten, the Komodo National Park in East Nusatenggara, the Lorentz National Park – South East Asia’s largest protected area – in Papua, and the tropical Rainforests of Sumatra, that include the Mount Leuser National Park, the Kerinci Seblat National Park and the Bukit Barisan. While UNESCO recognized Cultural World Heritage sites are the Borobudur temple, and the Prambanan temple complexes, in Central Java and Yogyakarta, both recognized in 1991, as well as the prehistoric site of Sangiran also in Central Java. While UNESCO recognized Intangible World Cultural Heritage of Indonesia are the Wayang (2003), the Keris (2005), Batik (2009), to be followed by the Angklung instrument and music in 2010.

Traditional musical instruments from Indonesia

Saluang is a traditional musical instrument Minangkabau, West Sumatra Indonesia. Which wind instrument made of thin bamboo or chamfer (Schizostachyum brachycladum Kurz). Minangkabau people believe that the best material to be made Saluang derived from the gutters to clothesline fabric or gutters that are found drifting in a river. These tools include the class of musical instrument flute, but it is simpler to make, simply by punching holes in the gutter with four holes. Saluang length approximately 40-60 cm long, 3-4 cm in diameter. As for other uses of the gutter is the place to make lemang, a Minangkabau traditional food.

Players named Idris Sutan Saluang legendary singer Sati with Syamsimar.

The virtues of the players are able to play Saluang Saluang by blowing and breathing together, so that blower Saluang can play the instrument from the beginning of the end of the song without interruption. This way of breathing exercises developed continuously. This technique is also called as angok manyisiahkan technique (aside breath).

Each village in the Minangkabau develop Saluang blowing, so that each village has its own style. Examples of the style that is Singgalang, Pariaman, Solok Salayo, Koto Tuo, Suayan and Pauah. Style Singgalang considered quite difficult to be played by beginners, and usually Singgalang tone is played at the beginning of the song. Style is the saddest sound of Ratok Solok Solok area.

Formerly, ...Mmm.... The Saluang player has its own a useful spell to hypnotize the audience. Pitunang spell called the Prophet David. The contents of the spell approximately: Aku malapehkan pitunang Nabi Daud, buruang tabang tatagun-tagun, aia mailia tahanti-hanti, takajuik bidodari di dalam sarugo mandanga buni saluang ambo, kununlah anak sidang manusia......etc

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Kulintang

Traditional musical instruments from Indonesia

Kulintang also Kolintang, Kulintangan, Totobuang is a percussion instrument that belongs to the idiophones and consists of small, horizontally lined up humpback gong. During this decisive carry the melodies of the songs, they are accompanied by larger, hanging gongs and drums. As part of a widespread gong and chimes culture in Southeast Asia Kulintang music groups play for centuries in the regions of the eastern Indonesian archipelago, in the areas of the southern Philippines, eastern India, as well as in East Malaysia, Brunei and Timor an important role .

Kolintang

The Kulintang originally developed from a simple local custom of the signal transmission. Reached its present form this music form by adding the sounds of gongs clunky that you took from the culture of the Sunda Islands and the instruments merged into a musical group. The relationship that exists between this form of music and the various indigenous cultures, is very pronounced and extends further back than the influence of Islam, Christianity or the Western world.
Basically Kulintang is a term people from Maguindanao, Ternate and Timor, which is used for several idiophones gong kettles which horizontally in a row on a board are to form a complete set Kulintang. It elicits from his instrument sounds by striking with two wooden mallets on the hump on the head of the gongs.
The spread of Kulintang expands across different linguistic and ethnic groupings. Thus, instead of the term Kulintang the Maranao and the designation used Kolintang Sulawesi, the peoples of Sabah and the Sulu Archipelago, however use the term Kulintangan while living in Germany at the Moluccas, the name is familiar Totobuang.
In the 20th Century extended the term Kulintang and became a term for a complete ensemble of Maguindanao, is composed of five or six instruments. Usually, such as basal or Palabunibuyan music group is called. The latter name refers to "music", "an ensemble of loud instruments" or in this case and "make music with a Kulintang."

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Kolintang Performance