SASADO , ANGEL MUSIC INSTRUMENT FROM INDONESIA

Sasando is a traditional musical instrument of culture Rote, East Nusa Tenggara. People Rote call (Sasandu), means that the tools that vibrate or beep. Or in the language of Kupang often call sasando, stringed musical instrument played by plucking with the fingers of the hand. Sasando is a musical instrument that is plucked. Sasando supposedly been used in the community Rote since the 7th century.

Sasando main ingredient is bamboo that form a long tube. Then in the middle, a circular from top to bottom are given support or the lump-lump-in rote language called senda-place strings or string stretching around a bamboo tube, resting from the top down. This Senda give different tones to every passage strings. At first tuner stringed instrument made of wood, which must be screened later diketok to set the right tone. Then sasando tube is placed in a container made of woven palm leaves called haik. Haik is what serves as the resonance sasando.There are several versions of folk ceritra which tells about the early sasandu / sasando, including ceritra of this stems from a young man named Sangguana strandings on the island Ndana. Then by people around, he was brought before the king Takalaa. This was the beginning Sangguana meeting with the princess. Sangguana fell in love with the princess, but the king has a requirement to receive Sangguana. Sangguana asked the king to make another musical instrument from another. In her dream Sangguana play a musical instrument beautiful shape with a melodious voice. A dream that inspired Sangguana to make musical instruments such as the king desired. The musical instrument named sasandu. Then sasandu is given to the princess and the princess gave the name Hitu (seven) the meaning of the name is because the provision of 7 (seven) sasando strings vibrate simultaneously when plucked. Sangguanapun eventually marry the daughter of the king, because it managed to meet the wishes of the king. Therefore, in the function and use, sasando usually played to accompany singing, imitating the singing, poetry readings accompanied Rote also to go to the left area of ​​dance, cheer the bereaved family and who are having a party. There is no requirement or special rituals to be memainkanya. Anyone can learn to play it.

Sasando counted rapid development, starting from sasando stringed 7 (pentatonic) as sasando gong, because it is usually played with the rhythm of the gong, gong sasando then evolved into a stringed musical instrument pentatonic with 11 (eleven) strings. Sasando gong is very popular in the islands of Rote.

Then estimated at the end of the 18th century sasando changing, from sasando gong to sasando violin. Sasando violin is more developed in Kupang. Sasando violin named because tones that exist in sasando mimic the tone on the violin. His tone diatonic and looks like sasando gong but the shape of bamboo and a diameter greater than sasando gong and the number of strings on the violin sasando more, initially 30 tones and then evolved into a 32 to 36 strings. Sasando violin there are 2 forms of sasando to form a resonating chamber made of palm leaves / haik and sasando fiddle with the shape of the resonating chamber made of wood or multiplex (box / box / crate). As we often see on the redesigned five thousands emissions in 1992.

In 1958, sasando electric start to be made up in 1960 successfully completed and get the same perfect sound to the original sound. This form of electrical sasando made as many as 30 strings. His first Arnold Edon maker, and its first artificial electricity sasando directly below to Jakarta by Thobi Messakh (traditional leaders of Rote). The most important tool in sasando electric, other than sasando body and strings, is a spool (pickup) which is a transducer that will change the vibrating strings into electrical energy, and then passed through the wires and into the amplifier