Music Traditional Indonesia

Unitary Republic of Indonesia is a country covering thousands of islands stretching from Sabang to Merauke, which of the many islands and its people are born, grow and develop various cultural regions. Traditional art which is the identity, identity and expression of community media supporters.
Almost all regions have NKRI art of traditional music special and unique. From the uniqueness of these can appear to be seen from his playing techniques, presentation and form / organologi musical instruments. Traditional art itself has a high spirit of collectivity, so that it can recognize the character and characteristics of Indonesian society, namely the famous friendly and courteous.
To better know better the traditional music we can be categorized into several groups:
1. Percussion Instruments.
Percussion is the designation for all musical instruments playing at o'clock technique, using either hand or stick. In this case several musical instruments belonging to the percussion instruments are Gamelan, Kendang, lyre, Arumba, talempong, Sampek and Kolintang, Rebana, napkin, jimbe and so forth.
a. Gamelan is a musical instrument made of metal, gamelan from central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java, also in West Java called Degung and in Bali called Balinese gamelan. One device consists of gamelan instruments saron, demung, gongs, kenong, slentem, bonang, peking, gender and several other instruments. Besides, the gamelan has a pentatonic melodies / pentatonic.
b. Drums percussion instruments is a kind of membrane derived from animal skins (goat). Drum or drum can be found in many parts of Indonesia. In the area of ​​West Java drum plays an important role in the dance Jaipong. In Central Java, Yogyakarta, East Java and Bali drums are always used in the game good gamelan to accompany dances, puppet and ketoprak. Tifa is a kind of musical instrument drum that can be encountered in the area of ​​Papua, Maluku and Nias. Tambourine is a type of musical instruments commonly in use in having Islamic art. tambourine can be found in most parts of Indonesia.
c. The lyre is a stringed musical instrument from West Java daerh. Forms organologi harp is a wooden box lined above strings / strings, wooden boxes are useful as resonatornya. Musical instrument resembling a lute is the siter of Central Java.
d. Arumba (strains of bamboo grove) come from West Java daereah. Arumba is a musical instrument made of bamboo material in the play with the melodic and rhythmic. Pad initially arumba use pentatonic scales, but in its development using diatonic scales.
e. Talempong is the art of Minangkabau traditional music. Talempong is a musical tone diatonic (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si, do).
f. Sampek (until / sapek) adlah musical instrument resembling a guitar comes from Kalimantan. This musical instrument made of wood covered with ornaments / carvings are beautiful. Other stringed instruments that resembled Sampek is Hapetan of Tapanuli, Jungga from South Sulawesi.
g. Kolintang or kulintang originated from Minahasa. This instrument has a diatonic scales that all instrument consists of bass, melodic and rhythmic. The basic ingredients are made of wood and how to play this instrument in at by using sticks.
h. Sasando is a stringed musical instrument derived from the East Nusa Tenggara, this harp made of bamboo with the given string / strings while resonasinya made of woven palm leaves that have a half-circle shape.
2. Stringed Musical Instruments.
Traditional musical instrument that uses a technique is Rebab swiped game. Fiddle came from West Java, Central Java, Jakarta (arts betawi). Fiddle made of wood and covered with thin skin resonatornya, has two strings / strings and has the pentatonic scales. Other traditional musical instruments that have a shape like a fiddle is a resonatornya Ohyan made of coconut shell. Trigon of this type can be found in Bali, Java and South Kalimantan.
3. Musical Instruments Blow.
Flute is a wind musical instrument made of bamboo almost all regions in Indonesia can be found of this instrument. Saluang is a wind instrument from West Sumatra, the flute can be found in North Sumatra, Borneo. Flute Lembang derived from the Toraja region who have length between 40 - 100 cm by 2 cm diameter.
Tarompet, serompet, bugle is the kind of wind instrument that has a 4-6 hole to blow the tone and the funnel-shaped. Art of traditional music using a musical instrument like this is folk art Tapanuli, West Java, East Java, Madura and Papua.