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.