My Favourite Moment

Hello guys, this time, i wanna tell you about my favourite moment when i was in Junior High School.

Today, i read news about Indonesian Festival at the National Mall in Washington DC and it reminds me that i ever played Angklung when i was in Junior High School.

i forget that i was in 2nd grade or 3rd grade. i just remember that i ever played it. i played it with my classmates. All started from this, one day, there were a free time, because the teacher couldn't attend the class, so my Art Teacher came to the class and he asked the students that we want to play Angklung or not?, and we said yes, we want!. So, we went down stairs and came into the room where there were sets of Angklungs.

Angklung is the traditional music instrument from West Java, Indonesia, made from Bamboo.The unique part of angklung is that each instrument has the sound of only one specific note. The note can be produced by simply shaking the angklung. In my humble opinion (at least for me), Angklung better played by much people (group of people), because the sounds will be heard greater. Actually, 1 person can handle until three Angklungs (if she/he already can play and handle it well ). Total students in my class was 38 people, we have so many people here so then we handle one Angklung for one person.

The first song that we learn was Sway. it was famous at that time. We learn it happily, because there's no book that we have to read :P. we all only listened our teacher talking about how to play it. if we did wrong, the teacher didn't angry and we all laughed. that's it. All happened just Learn, Play and Laugh!. We played for 2 hours every we have a free time. Really, it was fun, really fun!. What i remember is when we played Angklung, we have to work together and believe each other that we will play our job well. So that, we can play a music harmoniously and heard greatly.

btw, this is the video about World Record Angklung Ensemble in Washington DC

*Photos source : google