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The kalimba is an instrument in the percussion family. It is a modernized version of the Southern African mbira. It is a sound box with metal keys that are attached to the top, to allow the various annotations. It is also known as the African thumb piano.

The kalimba is a musical instrument from southern Africa. Several reeds or tines are plucked with the thumb or fingers, and the reed vibrations are amplified by a hollow Kastenresonator or a sounding board. The kalimba is a member of the lamellophones family of musical instruments. The first trade-exported out of Africa to be kalimba, was the Hugh Tracey Kalimba.

After studying African music and dozens of prototype instruments, Hugh Tracey’s company African Musical Instruments began manufacturing and kalimbas, a Western version of the mbira, the end of the fifties. The Namenskalimba is a Bantu word which means: little music “and the word Karimba, a type of mbira similar.

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Kendang (Javanese: Kendhang, Malay: Gendang, Tausug / Bajau Maranao: Gandang) is a two-headed drum that is used by the peoples of See South East Asia.

Kendang is one of the primary instruments in the gamelan ensemble from Java, Bali and Terengganu, the Malaysian Kendang Ensemble and various kulintang ensembles in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and the Philippines are used.

It is constructed in a variety of ways by the various ethnic groups. Among the Javanese, the Sundanese and the Malaysian people, the lateral greater kendang than the other, with the larger, the low-pitched side which is normally set right and is usually placed horizontally on pitches and beat her hands one each side being placed on the floor.

In groups like the Balinese, the Maranao, the Tausug or are both sides of the same size and are either on one or sides played using a combination of hands and / or sticks. Within the Gamelan kendhang is smaller than the bedug, which is set within a framework suggested by a beater, and used less frequently.

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Saluang is a traditional musical instrument Minangkabau, West Sumatra. Which wind instrument is made of thin bamboo or chamfer (Schizostachyum brachycladum Kurz). Minangkabau people believe that the best material to be made saluang comes from the gutter to gutter clothesline fabric or found floating in a river.

This tool from the class of musical instruments including the flute, but simpler to make, simply by punching holes in gutters with four holes. Saluang length approximately 40-60 cm, 3-4 cm in diameter.

As for other uses of the gutter is the place to make lemang, one of the Minangkabau traditional food.
Players named Idris Sutan saluang legendary singer Sati with Syamsimar.

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Rebana is a Malaysian Tambourine, which is in the Islamic devotional music in Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore used. The sound of Rebana often accompany Islamic rituals like zikir.

The NamensRebana came from the Arabic word meaning Robbana “our God”. There are many types of Rebana, the largest known Rebana is Rebana Ubi. Rebana Ubi are widely use by the Malay people in the east coast of Malaysia Kelantan and Terengganu such.

This is the only kind of Rebana Rebana with a decorative pattern on the body and face. Smaller Rebana Kompang is also known widely use by Malaysian people when it celebrates the bride and groom in a wedding ceremony. Rebana Hadrah came from the state of Johore.The redep or redap is a kind of Rebana Palembang, South Sumatra.

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The sitar is a plucked stringed instrument which is used predominantly in Hindustani classical music in which it is since the Middle Ages have been everywhere.

It derives its resonance of the sympathetic strings, a long hollow extension and down from a resonating chamber of the pumpkin. Used throughout the Indian subcontinent, particularly in northern India, were Pakistan and Bangladesh, the sitar in the western world through the work of Pandit Ravi Shankar Beginning late fifties known, especially to George Harrison of the Beatles took lessons from Shankar and Shambhu, the and played sitar in songs including “Norwegian wood (this bird has flown).” Shortly after, used a sitar on the Rolling Stones “Paint it Black” and started a brief fad for the application of the instrument into the pop songs.

In his Bharatiya Sangeet Vadya footsteps of Dr. Misra Lalmani its development from tritantri veena by nibaddh and anibaddh tamburas (named after Rishi Tumbru), also called tanbur and later the Yantra. Construction of similar tanpura was described by Tansen.

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