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Music of Minang is a traditional and contemporary ethnic variety of Indonesian music that grows and develops in the Minangkabau culture. [1] [2] [3] Music is generally played by musical instruments such as talempong, saluang, Minang rabab, serunai, rebana, aguang (), gandang, gambus, and violin.
Traditional Minangkabau music includes saluang jo dendang, which consists of singing to the accompaniment of a saluang bamboo flute and talempong gong-chime music. Dances include the tari piring (plate dance), tari payung (umbrella dance), tari indang (also known as endang or badindin ), and tari pasambahan .
The 1960s was the heyday of the Minang song. It is proven by the frequency of Minang songs being played on radio channels RRI Jakarta and others. The liveliness of the Minang music industry in the second half of the 20th century was caused by the large number of music studios owned by Minang entrepreneurs.
Saluang players use a circular breathing technique to play, which means they can play a song from beginning to end without stopping. Minangkabau people believe that talang which is collected from rack of clothes dryer or found drifting in the river is a good material for making saluang. [ 2 ]
There are many regions in Indonesia that use suling as a traditional instrument and have different local names for it. In Java, Sunda, and Bali, this instrument is commonly called suling, in Minang it is called saluang, in Toraja
Orkes Gumarang (English: Gumarang Band) was a pioneering group in the Indonesian music industry active from the 1950s until the 1970s. The musicians were Minangkabau people, from West Sumatra, but recorded their music in Jakarta, far from their cultural heartland.
The rebana or terbangan is a tambourine that is used in Islamic devotional music in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore. The sound of the rebana often accompany Islamic ritual such as the zikir. The name rebana came from the Arabic word robbana ("our Lord").
Minang language, the language spoken by the Minangkabau people; Australia. Mineng, also spelled Minang, an indigenous people of Australia;