Karinding

One again the wealth of musical instruments made of bamboo, called Karinding unique and simple form which has a small size of 10cm x 2cm.

Unique musical instruments played with mouth taped and then pounded or flick ends through the rope. Vibrations from Karinding accommodated on the oral cavity with combined air from the mouth to produce a unique sound as well.

Karinding usually in held in traditional ceremonies to ask the rainy season coming to an end along with the flooding and crop fields are flooded. But they also hope that the coming dry season is not miserable.

This instrument is reportedly more than 600 years old in the Sunda region of West Java and now began to be forgotten, is very unfortunate if this time a large part of the Sundanese community has lost a lot of information and knowledge about their ancestors.

Enrekang

Bamboo music, traditional music instruments Spare Massenrengpulu, Enrekang District, South Sulawesi, which is threatened with extinction.

Ethnic Communities Massenrengpulu (Maiwa, Duri and Enrekang) calls bamboo as a musical bass music is sounded, all the equipment is made from bamboo or petung customers, the shape resembles a musical instrument from West Java angklung.

This Enrekang unique type of musical instrument, where the two tube joined together by sticks bamboo smaller.

In the old days when the Dutch occupation, through the development of bass music, although very traditional manufacturing techniques.

The Calung

The Calung is the Sunda musical instrument which played by beating, different from angklung whose played by shaken up down.

Beating the bar (blade) of internodes ( bamboo tube) structured according to titi barrel (gamut) pentatonik ( da-mi-na-ti-la).

There are two forms of calung known in the West Java of Sunda area, namely calung renteng and calung tenteng. Two types of calung this form and be based on the layout of bamboo.

Bamboo calung renteng placed in a row use leather strap waru or tied with rattan, sorted from the large to the smallest, the number of bamboo calung in this section have 9 or more, how to play this type of calung beaten.

The second type is the type of calung tenteng, this is a different bamboo row size linked up with bamboo blade, consisting of 2 bamboo tube up to 8 bamboo tube, beaten with the right hand using resembling a hammer tools.

This calung known in general is kind calung tenteng. Calung this type of equipment is the type of music that has long been popular by the Sundanese people.

Played in groups as composed of bass calung, melody calung and rhytem calung, while singing a song punctuated by a few jokes.

The Angklung

Angklung bamboo is a type of music that is very unique, which bamboo tubes composed of two or more shaken to produce sound. Traditional musical instruments from Indonesia is a cultural heritage of ancestors who must be preserved.

Angklung is an Indonesian traditional musical instrument, made from bamboo, played by 20 – 60 people, covering both traditional and modern songs. One complete set of instrument consist of 42 single pieces, where each piece represents only one tone.

Several sets are used when playing angklung in a big group. More than 20 people are needed to form a complete angklung group, where each person holds 2 to 5 single pieces of angklung. Good team work is needed, since every player contribute the tones to form a complete song. They have to harmonize each other to produce a proper melody. In angklung-orchestra, togetherness is the most important thing the group should has.

The Sulings

The Suling is a bamboo flute from Indonesia state, where the flute is a lot of variety because Indonesia is an archipelago.
Almost every major island in Indonesia have a traditional musical flute is combined with other traditional instruments, especially the island of Java, which was divided into three provinces namely West Java, Central Java and East Java.

To the east is the island of Bali is rich in art music and dance also has his own bamboo flute. Bamboo flute in almost all devices in the Balinese gamelan melodies as carriers and sweeten the tracks, of the many traditional Balinese instruments only 10 percent using bamboo materials, however, the presence of bamboo gamelan is no less important than the metal gong.

The Suling is a simple bamboo flute. A notch is cut into the the side of the top end, and this top end is surrounded by a rattan of bamboo ring, leaving a small slit where the player will put his mouth on. Suling is the simplest and cheapest instrument in the gamelan.

The Dizi

Because it sounds great, is easy to learn, light to carry and inexpensive, the Dizi Chinese Bamboo Flute) is one of most popular Chinese instruments in Asia.

The Dizi (also called D'Tzu or Zhu Di), is a side blown wind instrument made of Bamboo. The Dizi has a very simple structure: 1 blowhole, 1 membrane hole, 6 finger holes, and two pairs of holes in the end to correct the pitch and hang decorative tassels.

Most special about the Dizi is the "Mo-Cong" (membrane hole), which is located between the blowhole and 6th finger hole. The Mo-Cong was invented in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) by Liu Xi, and he named the flute the "Seven Star Tube". What makes the Mo-Cong special is its thin membrane covering. Some people mistake this membrane for rice paper, but it is actually made from the inner tube of a bamboo or reed plant. When the Dizi is played, the membrane vibrates with the Dizi, producing a sweet, bright tone. In addition it helps to deliver the Dizi sound far away. Liu Xi stated the purpose of his great invention as "To help produce better tone quality". You can also adjust the membrane to get the just the "right" tone for the specific musical mood.

Another Chinese bamboo flute, called the Xiao, is played vertically. This style of flute was exported to other Asia countries.


Source : http://www.2measures.com/dizi.html

The Shakuhachi

The shakuhachi is a testament to the elegance of traditional Japanese culture. Made from the root of the bamboo, its aesthetic is organic and simple. Hidden inside this rustic form, however, is a bore that is carefully crafted with the utmost precision. This instrument produces a sound that is said to replicate the full range of natural life on earth.

The shakuhachi is an end-blown flute tuned to a pentatonic (5-note) scale. By various fingerings -- half- and quarter-holings -- and by controlling the angle of mouthpiece against the lip, all twelve tones of the western chromatic scale can be produced. The mouthpiece consists of an oblique blowing edge whose design is unique in that it enables the player to control the pitch produced by changing the angle at which the flute is being blown. This, in turn, produces a delicate change of intonation -- a swelling or bending of notes characteristic of the traditional music. Alterations in embouchure, intensity of blowing and cross fingerings allow the player to create a wide variety of subtle and incredible sounds. The timbre of the instrument is mellow in its low tones, although it is equally capable of producing loud, penetrating and breathy tones in its middle and upper registers. Little can be said of the sound of the shakuhachi without first hearing its hauntingly beautiful ring. With this in mind, noted ethnomusicologist Fumio Koizumi concluded: "Because of the religious origin of its music, the sound of the bamboo flute leads the mind directly into spiritual thought. Thus a single tone of the shakuhachi can sometimes bring one to the world of Nirvana."

Source : http://www.shakuhachi.com/

Bamboo Flutes

The flute is a musical instrument an aerophone or reedless wind instrument that produces its sound from the flow of air across an opening, flutes are categorized as Edge-blown aerophones. A flute produces sound when a stream of air directed across a hole in the instrument creates a vibration of air at the hole.

Bamboo is cut one or several segments and then given a few holes in the trunk to produce different tones. While the length and diameter is very diverse, some short and long, slender in diameter there is no fat. This is characteristic of the bamboo flute in countries that have a bamboo art.

Bamboo flute is a wind instrument that is very easy to play, there are several types of play at the special training required. Blow and produces a sound course not everyone can do, while to the holes in the rod provided also needs to be studied. But generally it is easy to play the flute.

The form and the resulting sound was an inspiration to create the modern flute as used today. Amazing natural material and its use is no doubt.

Here will examine some bamboo flute from several countries that form and have a different sound.

Bamboo Music History

The origin of the bamboo musical creation, which is based on the view of people's lives around. In places and different countries have their own history when the bamboo used as musical instruments.

Bamboo produces various types of musical instruments either blown or struck. Each place has a unique form of the work of the artist.

In principle, the use of bamboo music is influenced by the myth in ancient cultures, in addition to ceremonial and other traditional performances.

Bamboo music is music that lives in the community were hereditary, maintained as a means of entertainment. Three components affect each of these artists, the music itself and the public audience. While meant to unite perception between artists and the community thinking about joint efforts in developing and preserving traditional music. Making music trasidional as art treasures in the community that more traditional music touches on general commercial sectors.

Bamboo is an ancient material that has been used to produce musical instruments in almost every region of the world. Bamboo instruments create a particular quality and sound that is softer than other types of instruments.

A musical bamboo instrument acts as a transformer, converting the energy from an outside source into a series of sound waves. All sound is the result of vibration. A bamboo flute, for example, vibrates when it is blowing air into stick. Its movement causes the air around it to vibrate in a series of hole vibrations travelling outwards from the stem.

Bamboo can produced a beautiful sound, with appropriate notation created a new musical art form is unique. Musical instruments type as bamboo flute each of which produces a different shape and unique sound in several country.

The people, since ancient times, have been using bamboo to give expression to their art, bamboo music traditionally owned by the tropical countries on several continents, each of which has its own characteristics.

Bamboo music is not inferior to modern music, but basically it into traditional music and we can not see easily. Usually a show at the title at a certain time when there is a cultural event of a country or bamboo musical arts performances.

There are still many traditional artists preserve this music, they held a ceremony or a show at the cultural performance. Even the artists of the world also comes with a bamboo musical collaboration and modern music.

Usefulness Bamboo

Bamboo is both decorative and useful. In many parts of the world it is food, fodder, the primary construction material and is used for making great variety of useful objects from kitchen tools, to paper to dinnerware. The Species Source List contains a listing of the bamboos that are commonly used for furniture, construction, musical instruments and many more things.

- Are used as a tool : :
Age-old after finding a place to eat chopsticks is a tool to help how to take food and fed it. Until now, the use of chopsticks in China mainland and indo china still daily habits.

The first form is still bamboo chopsticks and wooden sticks used to pick up food. After the 14th century, the period of the Ming and Qing Dynasty, chopsticks have become a popular item on the spoon. Bamboo chopsticks finally rarely used anymore, because people prefer wood.

In many parts of the world, particularly tropical climates where giant bamboos grow as forests, there is a tradition to using bamboos for constructing buildings and other structures such as the bridge shown above. Bamboo bridges are designed to hold up simple suspension load, either by making stack of split bamboo or tied whole culms of sufficiently bamboo together.

This traditional way is still used today, especially in villages that have each other to connected but separated by the river.


- example of the artistic materials
Bamboo construction makes use of the wide variety of building products now available that are made from one of the most versatile and sustainable building materials. For some examples of innovative building design using bamboo and ideas and inspiration on the use of the most versatile, strong and durable.



- bamboo crafts

Bamboo crafts have origin in past and characterize in some countries is cultural legacy. Bamboo crafts for their functional and aesthetic appeal this is an important source of livelihood for the people. They are also easy to work with and hardly require the use of specialized tools or equipment.

A variety of products and items such as furniture and partitions, table mats and floorings, lampshades etc are made. Panels, screens and partitions made out of splitted bamboo, pasted on plywood is another utilitarian item created here split bamboo is so thin and shiny that it looks like ivory.

Tree species that are considered normal with a touch of high art can be very expensive goods and artistic

Bamboo Glance

Bamboo is a lot of plants in tropical areas usually wild grows in the village or woods, is a strong tree, he lived in groups and always grows new shoots at the ripe stem.

This new leaf growth happens during the Spring time has leaf surface a pointed, although not tightly when rub each other blown wind noise yield, the stem round, has a segment, and hollow or solid, but generally hollow.

Bamboo is a belongs of the grass family, from a single stem new shoots that grow to create a new group. Bamboo type is reaching more than 1500 different species, mostly available in the tropics area. Bamboo is the fastest growing plant, Some types can arise new shoots up out of the ground at a rate of over 1 foot per day. It takes a varying number of years (4-15) for different species to reach their maximum size.

The bamboo plant is a very valuable and versatile raw material, it is used for building complete houses, many crafts also use bamboo materials, to create unique appliances and highly valuable. Bamboo can add greenery to your garden during the winter, it can stabilize the soil of embankments and control the worst of erosion problems.

As wood becomes more scarce bamboo construction will hold more and more value outside of the tropical climates where the benefits of its use have been known for centuries.

Unbelievable, but its tensile strength compares to that of steel and therefore bamboo has been used in construction for centuries because bamboo can be harvested and used cheaply and it grows back in lightning speed.

Most bamboos have green canes with green leaves. Some have variegated leaves like white stripes on the leaves. For the most part, variegated leaves are most vibrant when the leaf is young.

For color in the canes – here are some useful qualities to keep in mind :

* Yellow Bamboo


This type of bamboo looks bright, lemon yellow color of the stems that were largely matched in the spring when new buds are exposed to the sun is a beautiful sight. These are among the most powerful cold and bamboo can grow almost anywhere in the United States. Grew up a habit of making good choices when the narrow, colorful screen desired.

* Blue Bamboo

The Blue Bamboo is a rare species have moments in their lives when they are absolutely blue, The spectacular color usually occurs when the plant is putting up its newest canes. Not all countries have this type, this species is only seen in the Himalayas maybe that's why Latin names are also Himalayacalamus hookerianus. The color looks amazing when the surrounding trees grew green with different colors.

Blue bamboo does not reach such heights of yellow bamboo and tend to shoot a little group of, but true or not if the bamboo into the smallest types of bamboo.

Many fans of ornamental plant species to hunt because bamboo is a beautiful blue and unique. By showing them at home will have its own pride as a decoration that brightens the home.



* White Bamboo

One of our new favorites. A beautiful single specimen or anything, with nodding tops, this plant is graceful with a moderate footprint.

White bamboos throw new shoots that are covered with a lot of powder (sometimes called ‘bloom’). When the canes are covered in this powder they appear (convincingly) to be white.






* Black Bamboo

Among the segments of the black bamboo like poles with paint in white color, gloss was evident in the group make it look beautiful bamboo.

Black bamboos usually start off green when they are juvenile. Every season, the new canes emerge green and then turn black. Smaller, younger plants may take a season or two to attain the maturity to change color. Older plants will do it as a matter of course.

The plant has one of the most upright and vertical profiles of each of clumping bamboo, power trunk very tough and hard.

This type is widely used as a unique architecture for the colored stems blackish, maybe that's why we rarely get this kind.