Suling

Suling

A suling or Seruling is an Indonesian bamboo ring flute. It is used in gamelan ensembles.
Sulings are made mainly of "tamiang" bamboo, a long, thin-walled bamboo tube. The mouthpiece of the suling is circled with a thin band made of rattan near a small hole.
The fingering position changes the wavelength of sound resonance inside the suling's body. Depending on the distance of nearest hole to the suling's head, different notes can be produced. The airflow speed also can modify the tone's frequency. A note with twice frequency can be produced mostly by blowing the air into suling's head's hole with twice speed.
Sulings can have either 4 holes or 6 holes. The 6-holed Sundanese suling can play at least three different scales.

The following picture six-holed Sundanese suling.

shows the fingering for a -

And below is the example of finger positioning for

of 'more realistic' view the pelog degung scale.

The Maguindanaon suling is the smallest bamboo flute of the Maguindanaon and the only one classified as a ring-flute. Air is passed through the suling via a blowing hole found at the bottom of the instrument and pitch is controlled via five finger holes on the top and one finger hole located on the bottom. Traditionally only the palendag was commonly played but because of the difficult nature of playing the palendag, both the tumpong and the suling have come to replace the palendag as the Maguindanaon’s most common aerophones.

Related Sites for Suling

• Suling - Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, ensiklopedia bebas read Suling
• Shih Tzu Arizona - Suling Shih Tzu read Suling