Thursday, October 16, 2008

Beautiful Sasando

Sasando is a traditional music instrument originated from Rote island, East Nusa Tenggara. Sasando is a stringed music instrument made of bamboo tube surrounded by strings. The stringed bamboo is covered by several palm leaves producing a typical resonance.
I took this picture last week when we visited a national trade expo at Taman Anggrek Mall in Jakarta.

3 comments:

  1. my first time here...... you've got some good pictures there!

    Cheers

    Rakesh
    http://almostsunday.blogspot.com

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  2. I agree that it's gorgeous! I would love to hear it played too. I think that traditional and ethnic instruments and music are so much more interesting than most modern music. If you find a youtube video or an audio webstream of sasando being played, leave me a message please?

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  3. Anonymous10:16 AM

    here is a video about Sasando
    http://tw.youtube.com/watch?v=kIC2ilIjQ3c

    oh i miss my hometown...

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