Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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.