Saung Udjo

    Saung Angklung Udjo was in Bandung. It was a very popular place in Bandung beside Paris Van Java. It is a must visit place in Bandung, because the first time you arrive at there you will see an ausome atmosphere and you will feel calm and comfortable at there. The address of this place is in Padasuka Street.

     Saung Angklung Udjo is a place where you can see an attraction of some traditional music from Indonesia with the Java traditional musical instrument. You can see there is Angklung, Gong, Gamelan, and more. They perform many music in the show such as Burung Kakak Tua, Music from Irian Jaya if I'm not wrong,and etc. Not just traditional music but they play some modern music too like Heal The World, etc. Perfomance that we see is Not just music but there is some traditional dances too in there. The reason we go to this place is so we can learn more about traditional music and dances.

The history of this place is In the 50’, there is a family – a married couple with 10 children – who started a story of establishing a unique art performance venue; the idea was to make bamboo as theme, so, the chairs, the musical instruments and even the stage, all are made of bamboo. Unexpectedly, the performance impressed the audience with a memorable experience. In every of their show people will always laugh and smile with the show. Day after day the people that come to this place is rising and rising. The owner Udjo Ngalagena was inspired by a philosophy named 5Ms : Mudah (easy), Murah (cheap), Mendidik (educative), Menarik (attractive), Massal (mass). Later on, Udjo put one additional value to perfect this philosophy, which is Meriah (cheerful) – that would change the face of Angklung afterwards. The show now become so popular in Bandung even Indonesia and Even there were many tourist from other country visit Bandung for see this perfomance.

In there we just not seeing the perfomance but after the perfomance we were invited to see how angklung are made. From there we can know that to make an angklung we must really accurate with the cutting, because if we don't really accurate the sound of the angklung will be fals and it will be really bad. The other thing for sure is we have to master first the technique to make angklung.

In there, we can buy some gifts too, example Angklung, Some traditional dolls, pen, T-shirt, and some necklace, bracelet, etc that you can put some words in it.

I learn so much thing from here. First, I can learn many traditional music from Java. Second, we can learn so much traditional music instrument in Java. Third, we can know how hard it is to make Angklung. Fourth, we can learn that Traditional music can play a good modern song too not just traditional music.

This is some picture about Saung Angklung Udjo: