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Kolintang is a traditional Minahasan percussion instrument from North Sulawesi, Indonesia, consisting of wooden blades arranged in a row and mounted on a wooden tub. [1] Kolintang is usually played in ensemble music. Kolintang in the Minahasan community is used to accompany traditional ceremonies, dance, singing, and music.
Calung is actually the name for the Diospyros macrophylla tree in Sundanese language (ki calung, literally: calung wood), [7] [8] as a musical instrument, according to the A Dictionary of the Sunda language by Jonathan Rigg (1862), calung is a rude musical instrument so called, being half a dozen slips of bambu fastened to a string, like the steps of a ladder, and when hung up, tapped with a ...
Indonesia Pitched 111.24 Idiophone Kempyang and ketuk: Indonesia 111.241.1 Idiophone Kendang: Southeast Asia Unpitched 211.222.1 Membranophone Kenong: Indonesia Pitched 111.241.2 Idiophone Kepyak: Indonesia Unpitched 111 Idiophone Keyboard glockenspiel: Pitched 111.222 Idiophone A keyboard instrument, not normally part of a percussion section ...
Traditional musics of Indonesian tribes often uses percussion instruments, especially gongs and gendang . Some of them developed elaborate and distinctive musical instruments, such as sasando string instrument of Rote island , angklung of Sundanese people , and the complex and sophisticated gamelan orchestra of Java and Bali .
[2] [3] The gong found its way into the Western World in the 18th century, when it was also used in the percussion section of a Western-style symphony orchestra. [4] A form of bronze cauldron gong known as a resting bell was widely used in ancient Greece and Rome: for instance in the famous Oracle of Dodona , where disc gongs were also used.
Temple blocks are a type of percussion instrument consisting of a set of woodblocks. It is descended from the muyu , an instrument originating from eastern Asia, where it is commonly used in religious ceremonies.
Kecak (Balinese: ᬓᬾᬘᬓ᭄, romanized: kécak, pronounced "kechak"), alternate spellings: kechak and ketjak), known in Indonesian as tari kecak, is a form of Balinese Hindu dance and music drama that was developed in the 1930s.
The bonang is an Indonesian musical instrument used in the Javanese gamelan. [1] It is a collection of small gongs (sometimes called "kettles" or "pots") placed horizontally onto strings in a wooden frame (rancak), either one or two rows wide. All of the kettles have a central boss, but around it the lower-pitched ones have a flattened head ...