Monday, June 28, 2010

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.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

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.