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Thought to have originated in Persia and, perhaps, arrived in Indonesia, due to trading with India, the Balinese rebab is classified as a "fiddle spiked bent. "It is used as a melodic instrument in a number of different Balinese Gamelan orchestras, including Gambuh, Pegulingan Semar and Suling gong.
The resonator of a rebab is made of wood or coconut shell and is covered in front with the animal-gut. The neck and tuners that seem ears are made of wood too. Traditionally rebab ropes were made of copper wire, but in recent times, especially in Bali, they were replaced by guitar strings.
Visually similar to its same Javanese, the Balinese version differs in several respects. It is relatively small and streamlined, and more resonators are made of coconut shells. The neck is also almost entirely covered with decorative patterns created from silver, accentuating the graceful instrument form.1
The rebab is played by a musician soil sitting cross-legged and is held upright or in front of the left leg or cross between the calf and thigh. The game arms of the instrument with a bow of wood and ponytail or, these days, nylon.
Until a few years ago, the manufacturers of rebab Balinese were thought to be extinct, but now there are few emerging here and there, visibly in East Denpasar. These instruments are true works of art and feature all the typical Balinese accessories: gold leather gold ornaments tassles and even jewelry. Most rebab are kept in soft or hard cases and some instruments have yet performance is how they do in Java.
The rebab not instrument is easy to learn and is difficult even to produce a sound first, but as with the gamelan music too, persistence is the key!
An excellent read about the Balinese is rebab Learning Balinese Rebab by Pande Made Sukerta, published in English and Indonesian.
- Learning Rebab by Balinese Pande Made Sukerta
© 2009 Vaughan Hatch
For more articles on Balinese Gamelan and dance, see target = "_blank"> www.balimusic.org
About the Author:
Vaughan Hatch is a writer, musician and ethnomusicologist who lives in Bali. He has written extensively on rare and endangered Balinese gamelan music, and his work has been published in numerous newspapers, magazines, and books in Indonesia. To read more of his articles, visit www.balimusic.org
Article Source: ArticlesBase.com - What is a Rebab?
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