MUSICAL TOOLS IN SABAH

MUSICAL TOOLS IN SABAH

Sabah society consists of rattan communities categorized as indigenous and non-native. We are rich in cultural heritage and music traditions.

In music is an essential requirement that it takes important places in social life at the village level. These include reaping parties, the first birthday of children. Animistic religious rituals and others that are important to the community.

Each of the sabah societies has different musical forms although some of these tools are common to all. Differences are often found in some combination of tools. The dance pattern, the duration of the game is soothing. There are also tools that only focus on a community and are not found in other groups.

Locale music is often associated with dancing. It also functions as a background music in a particular crowd and is often used by individuals for entertainment purposes alone.

Traditional music in Sabah has no system of symbols and songwriting. All music and songs are inherited from generation to generation. Men or women also present any musical instruments.

GONG (Ldiofon)

Gong is the backbone of most music game arenas and is used in almost all social ceremonies.

The number of gongs played together varies according to the needs of the local community. One or two drums are also often hammered together to match their rhythm.

Gong can be found throughout the state of Sabah and has a high value. It is also used as a hermit, animistic belief ceremony, signals and festival of harvest feasts.

Since recently the Rungus tribes in Kudat have made gongs formed from galvanic iron pieces purchased here.

The more poplar gongs have thick walls, deep lips and large buttons, booked from the Philippines, Indonesia or Brunai.

KULINTANGAN 

Initially this tool was known in the west of Sabah by the Brunai tribes but was traditionally used by the Bajau and some of the Dusun / Kadazan tribes. Often it is played in religious ceremonies, where it is accompanied by traditional gong-gong.

This tool covers eight or nine tiny kettle gongs each of which produce varying sounds when beaten. This gong gong gong is placed in a row over a low wooden frame. Usually sipemain sit on the floor opposite the gong line while hitting it with two small beater.

GAMBUS

Iazim pear shaped pear was found among Muslim societies along the coast. It has three pairs of strings made of animal or brass loafs picked up with grunts. Grass carved from a piece of jackfruit. After the wood is carved into the general shape of this tool. Along the top up to the level of the screw shoved up hollow. In the neck is covered with a piece of thin wood as the surface of the body is covered with goat skin or lizard skin.

Gambus is usually played for personal entertainment and music Resembling Malay dance rhythm like joget and zapin.

TONGKUNGON

The whole guitar tube tool is made of bamboo. The bamboo trunks are then taken four or eight pieces of leather to be wrapped along the bamboo stems between the two huntsag forming a few small clobber sheets .The rope is supported by rattan or small wooden pieces at both ends to change the length and the sound- His voice. The strings and the sounds are called in conjunction with the names of the gongs in the community's musical composition.

Usually tongkungon is played individually for private entertainment. It is also used to accompany dancing. It is popular in the tribal tribe of Dusun / Kadazan.

SOMPOTON

Oral organ is a very interesting tool among local musical instruments in sabah. It is made of a dried pumpkin fruit with eight bamboo sticks arranged in two layers.

One of these pipes has no bubbles and works to balance the shape of the tool. By blowing or sucking the mouthpiece of the mouthpiece, the cheers may sound a harmonious sound. Some small pieces of polod (like in the cloak) are placed on a base but-but

Piped pipe.

DRUM (MEMBRANOFON)

Drum can be found everywhere in sabah. The original drum can be a face of karatung from Tambunan and touches among Rungus tribes, or two faces like a gandang

From Penampang as well as nice among the Rungus tribes. It is made of a hollow round wood. Each face of a goat or cow's skin is affixed to the face and then ransacked. The wooden peg to tune a nice sound is inserted on the rattan. The peg can be moved to tighten or loosen the position of the leather drum.

Some drums in coastal areas such as Bajau drums are shaped like tongs with their skin wrapped in rattan cord mounted on the drum body. The rattan or knot is stretched across the cross from one face to the other. It is fastened or loosened

To correct the drums.

Drums are played along with other musical instruments, especially with gongs and hips. Its main function is to escort the main beats and give the beats to the dancers.

SUNDATANG 

This was made of jackfruit. It has two or three brass strings. Traditionally the lines are made of giman plants. The strings of the strings are fixed by rotating the ear stick screw over the tool.

His music resonates with melodies and rhythms of various types of dances.

In Tambunan it is played to accompany the dancing dance. It can be played as a solo tool without being accompanied by a voice, for private entertainment.

TURALI (ECOFON)

The nose flute is made of ten lengths open on both ends. It pitches the middle pores back and forth in front.

The turquoise often produces a melodious tone such as the wind blows through the crevices of the trees in the forest. It is played for private entertainment and its songs can replicate songs. Among the Dusun / Kadazan tribes in central Tambunan and Penampang, the turquoise reveals a person's sad feelings. In central Tambunan, it produces a powerful, sharp sound that crosses tears. The melodies signify the death of a father, mother or child.

SULING (EFFON)

This is a blown flute at the end made of bamboo. It has five or six pores played for amusement entertainment. The melodious tone of this tool is often heard at night as the villagers return from the blades. It is played by all the tribes in sabah.

TOGUNGGU (Idiofon)

Known as mantis among the murut tribes, to the tribe of Dusun / kadazan or tolls in the cross section, these bamboo idiophones are played in groups to accompany dances or marches at parties. A set of musical instruments ranges from 30 to thirty, depending on the tribe. Music released resembles a set of gongs of a group, with each idiophon adjusted It sounds according to the actual gong played.

KOMPANG (Membrnofon)

Kompang is played by Islamic roles in Sabah especially among the Bajau and Brunai tribes. It is commonly played to welcome dignitaries. Compang music is also played in large groups for such occult rituals in weddings or circumcision and other ceremonies among Muslims. Sometimes the music is accompanied by drums.

Sound is produced by hitting or tapping the skin by hand or finger. This tool is made of goat skin or cow that has been removed. The skin of the animal is tied up on a hollow wood.

BAS (AEROPHONE)

The bus is a blowing sound device that is played as part of the Suling Rurum Luling which is a composition of the Lundayeh tribe. This pipe band contains 23 erofons: nine flutes played by women, and 14 buses made in size, played by men. It is said to be developed from the nose flute between 1930 and 1940, which is taught in schools in Indonesia. Rurum Lum Suling plays the tunes of Christian songs, with the Bas of issuing harmony under distilled melodies. This music is an important form of Lundayeh's tribal culture.