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.

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.