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This entry is about indonesian traditional musical instruments.

Factory connection jeans. My knowledge of indonesian traditional instruments is restricted to my visit to yogyakartas sultan palace kraton where all indonesian traditional musical instruments were on display and local musicians actually play them for. It is a multi timbre ensemble consist of flutes gongs metallophones bonang kethuk peking saron slenthem and many more. It is come from word gamel which refer to mallet used to strike instruments.

Manwhile in 1930 keroncong music is widely used in indonesias movie industry. These metallophones are tuned to four note or five note scales. Last year around a hundred indonesian artists performed at this event.

Instruments of the gamelan rebab javanese bowed spike lute chordophone used in the gamelan orchestra of the javanese people of java indonesia. This music instrument is pretty similar with kordofun. The jakarta rock parade a three day music festival is one of the most popular music festivals of indonesia.

Angklung one of the most famous instruments of indonesia is made up of a number of bamboo tubes fixed on a bamboo frame. Indonesian regional folk pop musics reflects the diversity of indonesian culture and indonesian ethnicity mostly use local languages and a mix of western and regional style music and instruments. It includes musical instruments from china india indonesia japan korea philippines and thailand.

Angklung the angklung is a musical instrument from indonesia thats made of 2 or more bamboo tubes attached to a bamboo frame. Despite this gamelan which refers to various types of indonesian orchestra and the different traditions and genres that such orchestras perform has become increasingly prevalent in world music circuits. At that time the colonial brought the instrument of european music which then combined with the traditional musical instruments of indonesia and resulted in keroncong music.

Indonesian folk music is quite diverse and today embraces pop rock house hip hop and other genres as well as distinct indonesian forms. Other significant instruments of indonesia 15. It is played like guitar you pluck it with.

Gambus is a stringed instrument comes from riau. Kolintang music can be performed at many ocassions such as social enterntainment as festival harvest ceremony parades wedding ceremony religious rituals and even informal events. In indonesia gamelan is a word meaning orchestra and the instruments of this orchestra are primarily native to the island of bali.

Instruments involved in the gamelan include percussion instruments flutes gongs and various bronze metallophones.