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Indonesian Angklung
Description The Angklung is a simple bamboo musical instrument from Indonesia documented since at least 1704. The word ‘angklung’ comes from the Sundanaese phrase angkleung-angkleungan in which angka means pitch/tone, and lung means broken. Two to four bamboo resonating tubes, carefully carved and tuned, are suspended in a rectangular, partitioned frame made of white bamboo tightly bound with rattan cord. Traditional Angklung is played during many important ceremonies, e.g. rice planting time with the hope of a bountiful harvest, harvest time, circumcisions, etc. Traditional Angklung culture is transmitted informally from parents to children, i.e. through non-formal education. Nowadays, modern Angklung Padaeng is also taught in educational institutions from kindergarten to university level and this cultural form is thus flourishing. The physical form of the Angklung contains both symbolic and philosophical values. The large and small tubes symbolize that the powerful, strong and rich must always protect and shelter the vulnerable, weak and poor.
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