ASSALAMUALAIKUM WR.

WB

GOOD EVENING

OGHI SULISTIYONO

BAMBOO?

For most indonesian

bamboo is an
inseparable
component from daily
life.

The creative and artistic hands of

Indonesian artists also carve
bamboo into several musical
instruments, among them
aresuling, calung, munsang,
clempung, rengkong,andthe one
Inscribed in 2010 on the
Representative List of the
Intangible Cultural Heritage of
Humanity: the. . . .

ANGKLUNG
The word Angklung originated from two
wordsangka andlung.Angkameans
tone, andlungmeans broken or
lost. Angklung then means as an
incomplete tone.
Angklung is an Indonesian musical
instrument consisting of two to four
bamboo tubes suspended in a bamboo
frame, bound with rattan cords. The
tubes are carefully whittled and cut by
a master craftsperson to produce
certain notes when the bamboo frame is
shaken or tapped. Each Angklung
produces a single note or chord, so
several players must collaborate in
order to play melodies.

In the past,angklungwas an instrument

that had religious ritual function. It
serves as medium to inviteDewi Sri, the
goddess of rice or prosperity, to come
down to earth and give fertility to the
crops. Some villages still
includesangklungin the Sundanese
ritual traditions such as harvest
rituals,ngaseuk pare, nginebkeun pare,
ngampihkeun pare, seren taun, nadran,
helaran, turun bumi,orsedekah bumi.

 InWest JavaorThe Land of

Sunda,angklungis said to have
been played since the
7thcentury.
Angklung bungkowas created
bySyeh BentongorKi Gede
Bungko, a renowned religious
leader as a musical media of
spreading Islam.

Who?
In 1938,Daeng Soetigna, a teacher of
theHollandsch Inlandsche School
(HIS)inKabupaten Kuningan, West
Javasuccessfully re-inventedangklungas a
modern musical instrument.
The passions and spirit
ofangklungpreservation were passed on
asDaeng Soetignapassed away in 1984. His
trusted apprentice and assistant,Udjo
Nalagenastepped into his shoes and
continued preserving and developing
theangklung. Along with his wife, he
established theSaung Angklung Udjo
orUdjos house of angklung. Not only does
the instrument play traditional music, but it
also plays modern songs from all over the
globe. Visitors wishing to watch the
performances and learn more
aboutangklungcan visitSaung Angklung
Udjo.

What can we do?

APPRECIATING OUR CULTURE

ESPECIALLY MANY ARTS AND
CULTURES FROM OUR HOMETOWN

PHILOSOPHY

There is more toangklungthan its

soothing harmony asangklungalso
symbolizes human life. Based on
Sundanese ancestor, human's life is
symbolized like angklung's tube. The
tube is personified the human itself.
Angklung is not an angklung if it
consists of only one tube. It
symbolizes the human that cannot
stand alone and describe that human
should socialize with others.
The tube of angklung consists of large
and small tube that symbolizes
human's growth. The small tube (on
the left) is a human's description that
has dreams and the effort to become
large (the large tube on the right).
Both tubes mean human knows and
understand about her/his limits, and

Voice tube that consists of two tubes

a. The small tube lies on the left and,
b. The large tube lies on the right.

Ancak, that is angklung's skeleton, divided

into some parts:
c. Jejer, part from ancak (angklung's skeleton)
d. Base tube (below part)
e. Palang Gantung as tube holder.

As theangklungis
shaken, both tubes
create a harmony
illustrating life