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The siter and celempung each have between 11 and 13 pairs of strings, strung on each side, between a box resonator. Typically the strings on one side tuned to pélog and the other to slendro . The siter is generally about a foot long and fits in a box (which it is set upon while played), while the celempung is about three feet long and sits on ...
Celempungan is a Sundanese musical genre that includes several musical instruments such as kacapi, kendang, goong/gong, and suling or rebab (optional), and Juru Kawih (singer). Kendang, the drum, controls the tempo of the ensemble and reinforces the meter. Celempungan is named for the celempung, a bamboo tube zither from West Java. [1]
The complementary set of pelog instruments will include two each of gender panerus, gender barung, gambang and siter [check spelling] or celempung, the first of each pair tuned to the pelog bem subset of five tones (tones 1,2,3,5,6), the second to the pelog barang subset of five tones (2,3,5,6,7). The pelog bonang will each have fourteen gongs.
The criteria for classifying musical instruments vary depending on the point of view, time, and place. The many various approaches examine aspects such as the physical properties of the instrument (shape, construction, material composition, physical state, etc.), the manner in which the instrument is played (plucked, bowed, etc.), the means by which the instrument produces sound, the quality ...
A Gamelan Manual: A Player's Guide to the Central Javanese Gamelan (2005) by Richard Pickvance, Jaman Mas Books, London, ISBN 0-9550295-0-3 Kartomi, Margaret J. (2002). Eastman Studies in Music #15; The Gamelan Digul and the Prison Camp Musician Who Built It : An Australian Link with the Indonesian Revolution (hardcover, bibliography, index ...
Following the principle of construction in Iran, Ahvaz, the rebab is a large instrument with a range similar to the viola da gamba, whereas versions of the instrument further west tend to be smaller and higher-pitched. The body varies from being ornately carved, as in Java, to simpler models such as the 2-string Egyptian "fiddle of the Nile."
321: Instruments in which the strings run in a plane parallel to the sound table 321.3: Instruments in which the string bearer is a plain handle (handle lutes) 321.32: Instrument in which the handle is attached to, or carved from, the resonator, like a neck (necked lutes) 321.321: Instrument whose body is shaped like a bowl (necked bowl lutes)
The instrument, made from a tube of bamboo about 622 millimeters (24.48 inches) long and 48–52 mm (1.8 — 2 inches) across, was originally strung with plant fibers or gut from sharks or dogs. [2] The Moken have modernized their instrument, using nylon fishing line in place of the plant or gut strings. [ 2 ]