Kolintang for Pc

1. We start the production of Kolintang outside its native land of Minahasa in 1964 in Yogyakarta, Central Java, At the same time we began introducing the instrument around Central Java, our musical group toured the area which later extended to cities in East and West Java.

2. At that time Kolintang was still a single melody instrument accompanied by guitar, ukulele or string bass.

3. Kolintang , music instrument originated from Minahasa, a place in North Sulawesi, an island in the east part of Indonesia.

4. The name Kolintang came from the sound: TONG (low pitch note), TING (high pitch note) and TANG (moderate pitch note).

5. Story says that resonance box was beginning to be attached to this instrument after DIPONEGORO, a prince from Java who was exiled to Minahasa, brought along Javanese instrument GAMELAN with its resonance box, GAMBANG.

6. We began exploring the idea in 1966 and it was not until 1969 we managed to make our first Kolintang ‘Orchestra’ performance at Satya Wacana Christian University in Yogyakarta.

7. In its early days, Kolintang originally consisted of only a series of wooden bars placed side by side in a row on the legs of the players who would sit on the floor with both of their legs stretched out in front of them.

8. Our band consisted of a set of 5 Kolintang, each with different function, namely Melody, Alto, Tenor, Cello and Bass.

9. That might explain the reason Kolintang was nearly totally left behind when Christianity came to Minahasa.

10. Initially, there was only one kind of Kolintang instrument which was a 2 octave diatonical melody instrument.

11. The next development was the idea of replacing string instruments with kolintang accompaniment.

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