Dayak wealth in West Kalimantan has a unique musical art. This tribe has a musical instrument called community wealth Sampek or call sape 'wealth. Sape 'are strings. Musical instruments sape 'wealth owned by the Dayak wide body shape, small stemmed, about one meter in length, has two strings / ropes from plastic materials. Sape of this type has four scales.
Ways of making sape 'actually quite complicated. Timber used must also be selected. In addition Pelaik wood (wood cork) or other types of clay timber, can also hardwoods such as jackfruit, purchasing and other hardwoods. The louder and a lot of wood tissue, then the resulting sound is better. Flattened surface section, while the rear of the holes are elongated, but did not penetrate to the surface. To find a good sound, the level of thin edge thickness and the surface should be equal, so the sound can vibrate uniformly, resulting in a sound long and loud when picked.
How to play, as opposed to how to play guitar melody, because the fingers on only one string on the same shift up and down. Usually the musicians when playing a song, just by feeling it.
Sape 'wealth is very popular because of the rhythm and sound that can bring the audience seemed dilantunkannya in the clouds. Sape instrument 'is usually played when the party of the people or clerk padai (ritual thanksgiving for the harvest of paddy). Music was played by at least one person. Could also be two or three people. Type of music songs sape 'is varied, usually according to the type of dance. For example Datun Julut music, the dance also Datun Julut and so forth.
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