Kolintang

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music kolintang_2_bp_blogspotAlat kolintang including type percussion instrument that originated from Minahasa in North Sulawesi.
Kolintang instrument called because when the time reads: Tong-Ting-Tang.
Kolintang initially consist of only a few pieces of wood placed side by side on both legs of players sitting in lantai.dan selonjor o'clock struck.
The function of the foot as a base of wood blades blades (wilahan / keyboards) and then replaced two pieces of banana stem or two pieces of rope.
It is said that the use of chest resonator as a replacement began in the use of banana trunks after Prince Diponegoro in the flue to Menado (year 1830), which brings with it "xylophone" gamelan.

Use of closely related kolintang Minahasa people's trust, which is usually used in ceremonial rites of worship spirits spirits of the ancestors.
With the development of Christianity brought by missionaries in the Dutch missionaries, kolintang existence that is part of animist beliefs become so crowded even nearly extinct, disappeared during the more than 50 years.
After World War II, resurfaced kolintang pioneered by Nelwan Katuuk, blind artist origin of stringing northern Minahasa kolintang tone diatonic scale.

In 1952, at the southern Minahasa (Ratahan) a 10-year-old child, was inspired to make kolintang with basic instructions of the parents who had seen kolintang and heard music from kolintang which popularize via radio broadcasts.
The difficulty of transport links between the northern part of the Minahasa Minahasa southern part of the time did not shed a spirit child to be creative without seeing an example, with a capital of pieces of pieces of wood placed over the two bananas and the tuning rod (stem), natural tones with a tone range octave.

A remarkable achievement when in 1954, who was then still considered a child capable of making kolintang two and a half diatonic octaves with a crate resonator.Kemampuannya continue to hone and develop, as evidenced in 1960 managed to increase the range of tones into three and a half octaves played by the two people on a single appliance.

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