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Flute Bamboo 25cm (10") - 5 pack

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EY -KS1 KS2 KS3 KS4 SEN 3+ yrs
RRP: £9.50Web: £5.43Edu: £4.47
Weight: 0.18 (kg), Stock: 26
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Description
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An end-blown bamboo flute (called "suling" in Indonesia) which plays like a recorder (though with an asian scale) and makes a beautifully sweet sound. Similar flutes often form part of the Indonesian gamelan orchestra. This one is just 25cm (10 inches) long and costs next to nothing. Blow into the slit in the closed end, allowing the air to come out of the air hole about an inch down the stem. The tuning is not exact but starts approx on C
 
How it's Played

 

Balinese suling generally plays and embellishes the root melody of a gamelan composition. To play the melody in the gamelan, the suling needs to be played continuously without pausing for breath for a quite long time to cope with this, the suling players use circular breathing – breathing into the lungs through the nose and out through the mouth, allowing them to play continuously.
 
Traditionally

 

When you hear Balinese gamelan and give an attention to the melody, you will find the sound of suling (bamboo flute), the only wind instrument in the ensemble.

But suling is not just played as a part of gamelan ensemble in musical performance, in Balinese daily life; the sound of suling is a popular accompaniment for drinking tuak (palm wine). Sitting in an open pavilion overlooking terraces of green rice fields with friends and families accompanied by a bottle of tuak or two and the sad melody of suling will be one of our favorite pastimes.
 
What it goes well with

 
 
How it's Made

 

Suling are made mainly of bamboo, a long tube bamboo which has very thin surface. The head of suling, near a small hole, is circled with a thin band made of rattan or rotan to produce air vibration. The suling note is scaled in pelog or selendro system, sulings with five finger-holes for pelog system and four for slendro system.

 
 
 
 

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