Traditional Musical Instruments Kacapi .
Traditional musical instrument the harp is a musical instrument that always kelasik coloring some art in this Sunda land . Making the harp is not easy . While this may seem like a simple instrument harp , but making it is not easy . For any raw material that is made of wood Kenanga soaked for three months .
While the strings , if you want to produce a good tone , should be of a friendly at the wire ( an alloy of gold and copper ) , such as the lute made tempo . Because a friendly at this time is expensive , stringed lute now more using steel wire .
Tone in the Sunda harp has 5 ( pentatonic ) scales, namely Da , Mi , Na , Ti , La.
Couple this Sunda stringed instrument usually is Sundanese flute made of bamboo. The music that flows will feel dazzling in our ears if played both. If I myself would like to miss home.
Kacapi Parahu .
Is a resonance box underneath a hole resonance to allow the sound out . The sides of this type of kacapi formed such that it resembles a boat . In the past , this kacapi made directly from chunks of wood with carved .
Kacapi siter .
a resonance box with a flat plane parallel . Similar to kacapi parahu , placed at the bottom of the hole . Sides of the top and bottom to form a trapezoid .For both types of kacapi this , each string tied around a small screw on the top right side of the box . They can be tuned in a variety of systems : pelog , sorog / madenda , or salendro .
Currently , kacapi resonance box is made by gluing the sides of the six areas of the wood .
Details of pawn - bridges of a Kacapi Parahu .
The function of the ovary and kacapi Kacapi rincik .
According to its function in the accompanying music , played kacapi as :
1 . Kacapi Goon ( = kacapi parent ) , and
2 . Children Kacapi or Kacapi Rincik
Kacapi ovaries lead by providing the intro music , bridges , and interludes , also determines the tempo . For this purpose , use a large kacapi with 18 or 20 strings .
Kacapi rincik.
Kacapi rincik enriching musical accompaniment by filling the space between the tone of the high frequencies , especially in songs such as metered fixed in distilled or Sekar kacapi Panambih . For this purpose , use a smaller kacapi with strings whose number to 15 .
Tuning and notation .
Kacapi using gamelan notation . This notation is part of the system heptachordal pelog . See the following table :Java Sundanese gamelan Degung Pelog.
1 ( da ) 6
2 ( mi ) 5
3 ( na ) 3
4 ( ti ) 2
5 ( la ) 1
Many people ( especially those from the ground Parahyangan ) said , if kacapi Sundanese flute played then our imagination is a sprawling township which still rice paddies, farmers activities , green mountains and trees amid the rice fields . How about you ? Thank you for reading this article.
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