Gendang Nobat Kepri
Malay people have customs at weddings, including the procession of clapping plain flour. This procession is usually always accompanied by the music of drums and gongs.
This musical instrument is called gendang nobat or long drum. This nobat drum consists of several types.
These include the melalu drum, penengkah drum, ketawak (gong), and the nafiri which is a wind instrument similar to a flute.
Not many people know the process of making this long drum, which has several types.
The raw materials are also unique. Other drum materials are usually from jackfruit trees or cempedak trees. However, this long drum is made from old rubber trees.
With these raw materials, it could be said to be more effective, apart from being easy to find, this rubber tree is lighter, the sound it produces is louder.
The long drum itself consists of several instruments, each instrument plays a different beat.
These include hitting through, hitting the middleman. Meanwhile, laughter functions as a tempo regulator.
Therefore, if the laugh has a tempo flaw, then the other instruments will also have a tempo flaw.
It turns out that the price offered for a set of Long Drums is quite high.
Until now, the long drum continues to be played and its cultural traditions are preserved, so that it does not just become extinct.
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