HISTORY OF CALUNG

DID YOU KNOW THAT MUSIC EQUIPMENT OF WEST JAVA is calung ENGKLUN SIMILAR BUT DIFFERENT WAYS TO USE THE FOLLOWING HAVE A UNIQUE HISTORY seldom as Angklung

Calung living and known to the public now is the prototype of Angklung Angklung different ways menabuhnya, beating calung way is by banging sticks (wilahan) of the joints or bamboo tubes tersususn by titi barrel (ladder Tone) penta tonic (dami na ti la da)

    There are two forms of the Sunda calung calung rantay and calung Jinjing waditra calung tote made of black bamboo (awi hideung) and a set of used portable calung da; lam regular performances bertangga Salendro tone (tone bertangga Pelog) and Madenda (nyorog) wadrita calung tote an outgrowth of the form calung Chain / calung Gambang, calung in this form is already a performance art that is entertainment.

    calung tote derived from underlying calung rantay has been made in four separate sections wadrita form, the four separate pieces wadrita played by four players and portable by each holding calung in different functions. Wadrita calung Kingking consists of 1, 2 Panepas, 3 jongong, 4 bark while calung kingking number fifteen tones / octave tone of most small dala (teringgi)

    Calung Panepas number five pieces for five tones (1Oktaf) tone is the tone of the lowest connection calung kingking and of the five tone is there that the two have shared a slit (united jongjong panepas different as only a lower tone than panepas) panepas tone shape always high divided into two pieces for three consecutive tones of high, two-tone pieces for two advanced

    Calung calung bark is the greatest number is only two tube that incorporated both in low tones among the overall calung. Calung types are now grown and known is calung tote.

    Calung whose development is more directed at kecalung dangdut (caldut) songs and music plus the drums, guitar, keyboard and use the lighting for the show. In Bandung Regency is recorded in the Office Kebudayaahn and tourism in the District and in scattered villages more than 40 groups including Marahmay, Oces, Cinde great, Sinar Pasundan, Partner Siliwangi, Calawak Group, fragrant blooms, Gentra Priangan, Dangdiang, sariak layung etc. .