art instruments "ANGKLUNG"

Angklung is a traditional musical instrument which comes dar Indonesia Sunda Land, made of bamboo, which sounded shaken by (the sound caused by the impact of bamboo pipe body) that produces a sound that vibrates in the composition of tones 2, 3, and 4 tones in every size, both large and small. Barrel (tone) angklung instruments as Sundanese traditional music is mostly Salendro and pelog.

ORIGINS
 In a grove of art that uses musical instruments from bamboo known type of art called angklung. The type of bamboo used as the instrument is awi wulung (black bamboo) and awi temen (white bamboo). Purwa way angklung instruments; each note (barrel) produced from the sound of bamboo-shaped tube wilahan (bars) of each segment of bamboo from small to large sizes.

Angklung is a musical instrument from West Java. Angklung gubrag in Jasinga, Bogor, is one who is still alive since more than 400 years ago. Rite begins with the emergence of rice. Angklung created and played to attract Dewi Sri, down to earth people that rice plants flourish.

Sunda community known since the time of the Sunda kingdom, of which as penggugah spirit in battle. Angklung function as a pump kept the spirit of the people still felt until the period of colonization, that's why the Dutch Government had banned the use angklung, this ban could make angklung popularity declined and only played by children at that time.

The origin of the bamboo musical creation, such as angklung based view of Sundanese people who live with the source of the agrarian life of the rice (pare) as the food is. This gave rise to the myth of trust in Nyai Sri Pohaci as a symbol of life-giving Goddess of Rice (breathe-Hurip).

Reflection Sundanese people used in processing agricultural (tatanen) especially in the fields and huma has spawned the creation of poetry and song as a tribute and an offering to Sri Pohaci Nyai, as well as efforts nyinglar (starting reinforcements) to fit their crops did not invite disaster, both pests and disasters other nature. Buhun song to honor those Nyi Sri Pohaci example:
The Oyong-Oyong
The hibiscus inclined Sawahe
Sawahe ujuring eler
ETAN Sawahe ujuring
Flute Solasi dami
Invitor white incense god
Widadari gods
Reducing the Patang twenty

The next offering songs of Dewi Sri is accompanied by the sound of percussion accompaniment made from bamboo stems simple packed structures which later emerged the bamboo musical instrument we know today called angklung. Further development in the tradition of the game Angklung accompanied by elements of motion and ibing (dance) rhythmic (to wirahma) with patterns and rules = rules in accordance with the needs of a memorial service at the time of paddy rice paraded to the barn (ngampih pare, nginebkeun), also at times mitembeyan, began planting rice in some places in West Java called ngaseuk.

Similarly, when the harvest party and dedicated seren taun angklung game. Especially in the presentation related Angklung rice ceremony, this art became a nature show or pageant helaran, even in some places into the convoy Dongdang and Rengkong and Jampana (stretcher food) and so on.

In development, angklung developed and spread throughout Java, then to Kalimantan and Sumatra. In 1908 recorded a cultural mission from Indonesia to Thailand, among others, marked the transfer of angklung, and bamboo music of this game could also spread there.

In fact, since 1966, Udjo Ngalagena angklung figures who developed the technique based on the barrel-game pelog, Salendro, and madenda-start teaching how to play angklung to many people from various communities.