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All About Angklung

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All About Angklung
 

Angklung is one of many traditional musical instrument which come from Sunda.

 


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All About Angklung

Tone of Angklung

Pitch / tone Angklung is formed at the time of making the tubes tuning or adjusting the pitch tone of each Angklung. Salendro and Pelog pitch that is widely used in traditional Sundanese music. Now a days angklung has been develop until angklung has 3 gamut of tone. In the ancient times of sundanese , angklung just have 3 limited tones and it call tritonic and in the second period of angklung have limited Pentatonic tone Da Mi Na Ti and La Da Diatonic introduced by Daeng Soetigna in 1938 has a tone that is more commonly known Do Re Mi Fa So La Si Do.

Reference: http://kharistya.wordpress.com/2008/02/08/saung-angklung-udjo

 
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