A Tingklik is a bamboo percussion instrument from Bali. It often
used for indik?music, so is sometimes referred to as a Rindik
itself. Rindik music usually involves two Tingklik players and a
single Suling (bamboo flute).
Rindik music is usually played at public gatherings or just for
entertainment. It not associated with any of the religious or
cultural festivals where we usually hear the gamelan. The pieces are
secular, and usually named after animals, such as hasing a female
pig? or rog climbing a leaf?
A Tingklik typically has 11 bamboo tubes, although the instrument
we sampled has 12. The longest bamboo is about a metre long for the
lowest pitch. With five notes per octave, the range is just over 2
octaves. The tubes are suspended using string over a brightly
coloured wooden frame. The player sits on the ground and strikes the
bamboo tubes with rubber-tipped mallets.
The Tingklik player uses both hands, bouncing the mallets in a
constant rhythm. The left hand usually plays the melody and the
right hand plays an accompaniment to it. If there are two players,
the right hand parts are often interlocking (a technique called
kotekan), giving an illusion of very extremely fast playing ;
A 揵ubbling chatter of bamboo brilliance?
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