Sarawak Traditional Music Instrument

A traditional musical instrument is the sape.

Sarawak traditional music instrument. Music video muek. The music of the borneo rainforest is recreated using a combination of different instruments. Full set of traditional musical instrument. Lan e tuyang meaning among friends was originally a duo from sarawak.

The sapeh also known as the sape sampek or sampe a traditional sarawakian music instrument widely used by the kenyah and kayan tribes of east malaysia has been given prominence in sounds of nature by composer yii kah hoe. Get this from a library. The deep hypnotic drumming of the beduk long drum represents the density of the jungle. Initially the sape was a fairly limited instrument with two strings and only three.

We love to play traditional music sarawak hope the music and culture can make everyone share the wonderful love and peace people of sarawak. Sarawak traditional musical instrument sape. Alat muzik tradisional sarawak traditional musical instruments of sarawak. Petaling jaya august 7 some call it the mandolin of the forest while others describe it as the most amazing sound from the rainforest.

Membranofons the largest group are the drums and get their name from the skin or membrane which is stretched over the instruments to produce. Asang lawai and tegit usat at the 2011 rainforest world music festival in sarawak borneo. During the old days this instrument was used to flirt the girls. These are recognized as the top sape players in borneo and have all played internationally.

Idiofons are percussive instruments which are struck or shaken. Also one of iban s traditional musical instrument. The sape sampek sampeh sapek is a traditional lute of many of the orang ulu or upriver people mainly the kayan and kenyah community who live in the longhouses that line the rivers of central borneo sapes are carved from a single bole of wood with many modern instruments reaching over a metre in length. Cordofons are stringed instruments which are either plucked or bowed.

While the whistles from the selingut nose flute and the chimes of the jatong utang wooden xylophone create a cacophony of birdsongs so common on a glorious morning. Musician revives traditional sarawak instrument reappearance of the sape helps to update heritage of malaysia s kelabit people alena murang performs at the rainforest world music festival in sarawak. Orang ulu s traditional musical instrument.