Development Angklung

Angklung is traditional musical instrument which made from bamboos. Angklung is often played grouply, not individually.

Angklung start develop before expanding the influence of Hinduism in the Indonesian. Angklung is a musical instrument of the tune . As a means of pre-Hindu music, Angklung not be described the Borobudur and Prambanan temples, as well as other bamboo musical instrument that has developed before the era of Hinduism in Indonesia. In ancient literature also I have not found or not. Kekawin Arjunawiwaha is written around the year 1040 only breathe Sundari (such erofon that in West Java known as Sondari, in Bali Sundaren). Calung that nowadays there are in West Java and Central Java, is called an in-Buwahan inscription is made around the year 1181. in the Sunda Kekawin ballad that is written not long after the year 1357. Tools in Priangan called Pancurendang, in Central Java called Bluntak, and in Bali called Taluktak, called call-in Kekawin Bharata Yuda. Tongtong kentongan or bamboo is called an in-Sundharmala with Pulkul, in Smaradhana called Titiran, and called in the Bharata Yudha Kukulan. New posts and then as in Fiber Cebolang, called Angklung-call, which is described at the time Cebolang Mas parade expertise sing and play music in front of the Regent Dhaha Kediri. and in 1938 daeng sutigna developed again the angklung,he is a sundanese people who borrow the gamut from western music. and until now, Angklung still keep the traditiona (Tritonic, Pentatonic) even the latest development which used Diatonic gamut. The differences form between Traditional and Modern Angklung is from the number of bamboo tubes which are used as a tool of resonance.

reference: AWI-http//:angklung-web-institute.com, (Dr. Groneman, "De Gamelan to Jogjakarta, Letterkundige Vehaldingen der Koninkl, Academy, Jilid XIX, p. 4)