During my visit to Stockholm to attend the 2019 Wikimania conference, I had the opportunity to play karinding as a fatigue reliever, after a day of attending the conference. Karinding is a jawharp musical instrument from Sundanese culture, in West Java, Indonesia. On a slightly drizzly night, after returning from […]
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Folktale of Cianjur’s Palm Karinding
Collected by Ilham Nurwansah, drawing by Pandu Wibisono (published on IJHS Newsletter Issue 14 p. 5-6, 2012) Once upon a time, in Cirama Girang village, with its very fertile land to grow the paddies, there were two large communities living on one of the two mountains that surrounded the village, […]
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Living Heritage of Palm Karinding in Rural Village
Ilham Nurwansah (published on IJHS Newsletter Issue 14 p. 4-5, 2012) Warmest greeting for all! In Newsletter 12 I wrote about two types of Sundanese mouth harp, the bamboo karinding and the palm one. Here I said that the palm (midrib) karinding or Karinding Kawung has spread to several places […]
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Karinding Kawung Cirama Girang: Warisan Karuhun di Lembur Singkur
Ku Ilham Nurwansah (Dimuat dina majalah Cupumanik) Tatar Sunda mibanda dua rupa karinding numutkeun kana bahan dasarna, nya éta karinding awi jeung karinding anu dijieun tina palapah kawung. Hususna pikeun karinding kawung, anu dipaké pikeun bahanna téh ilaharna kawung saéran. Sanajan kiwari karinding awi leuwih populér ti batan karinding kawung, […]
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