book banner

Playing With Traditional Music Instrument

It was really fun watching children play. They looked so enjoy their playing, cheerful, and seems like nothing in this world can disturb, except mom’s call… lol! But mostly, I like to see kids playing with simple music instrument, such as triangle.

traditional toys 01

Indonesia have traditional music instruments that children love to play with. I can mention suling bambu (bamboo flute) and music instrument that made of kluwek shells. Kluwek is an Indonesian traditional condiment. It wrap in a thick shell. We have to break the shell to get the kluwek if we want to use it in our dish. One famous Indonesian food that use kluwek as condiment is rawon (black meat soup). Rawon is soooo delicious! Trust me! OK, back to music instrument! No more food!
I ever brought this kluwek shells music instrument at our homeschool camp, and you know what was the reaction of children at the camp? They scrambled it! They liked to play with kluwek shells music instrument! They ran, they hide and seek, they jump while playing this music instrument. Sadly, there was a kid who cried because her friends didn’t allowed her to play with it. Oh poor child!
Here some pictures about the kluwek shells music instrument details. You can see that it is handmade with good details. If you go to Indonesia, you may buy this as souvenir, but I think right now you only can buy it at Bali or Malang (East Java). I still couldn’t find it in other areas.

traditional toys 02

traditional toys 03

And you can hear the sound here:

 

So, do you think your child will love this Indonesian traditional music instrument, and want to play with it?
This post is a collaboration post with my two friends from Arab and Spain, they wrote good post about traditional children toys from their culture, read here:
My friend, Kay, from A Crafty Arab writing about Arabic Wooden Shorting Games
And Kali, from For The Love Of Spanish writing about The Molinillo

 

Comments   

0 #8 Leanna @ Alldonemonk 2016-02-10 05:45
This looks wonderful! And definitely appreciate the video!
Quote
0 #7 Leanna @ Alldonemonk 2016-02-10 05:44
This looks wonderful! And definitely appreciate the video so we can hear what it sounds like!
Quote
0 #6 Maria Magdalena 2016-02-08 01:44
Quoting Kali:
That makes such a pretty sound! And it is beautifully hand made. I like that much better than the electronic musical instruments my children have. ;)

That's great! I like traditional music too. :)
Quote
0 #5 Maria Magdalena 2016-02-08 01:43
Quoting Lisa Lewis, MD:
What a wonderful instrument! Thank you for the great post.

You are very welcome Lisa. Thank you for reading my article
Quote
0 #4 Maria Magdalena 2016-02-08 01:41
Quoting Kay:
What a fun instrument. I'm so glad you did the video so I could hear it!

I considered to create the video, because this music instrument is sold in very limited area
Quote
+1 #3 Kali 2016-02-07 19:40
That makes such a pretty sound! And it is beautifully hand made. I like that much better than the electronic musical instruments my children have. ;)
Quote
+1 #2 Lisa Lewis, MD 2016-02-07 18:47
What a wonderful instrument! Thank you for the great post.
Quote
+1 #1 Kay 2016-02-07 14:46
What a fun instrument. I'm so glad you did the video so I could hear it!
Quote

Add comment


 

Copyright (c) MarcellinaMaria 2015. All rights reserved.
Designed by olwebdesign.com

All photos and graphic in this site are created by me. Please considered that all photos, graphics, and contents are copyrighted.

This website contains affiliate links.

If you like my website, you can donate or buy ebooks from my affiliate e-stores at the right menu. That will help me to maintain this website.

Most of photos at this website were created by me, but sometimes when I hurried, I took free pictures from Freepik and did some editing.