Genggong

A genggong. The free end of the tongue points toward the left. The string, attached to the base of the tongue, is jerked to make it vibrate.

The genggong is a kind of jew's harp used in the music of Bali. It consists of a wooden frame and tongue cut from a single piece of the leaf stem of the sugar palm. The left end is held firmly against the cheek, while a string tied to the right end is jerked rhythmically to set the tongue into motion (in contrast to other jaw harps in which the tongue itself is plucked to produce sound). Different harmonics are produced by pronouncing different vowel sounds.

Very much a folk instrument, genggong was traditionally played only as a solo instrument or with small numbers of other genggong as informal entertainment. Since the 1930s, however, genggong has often featured in gamelan genggong, a larger ensemble of several genggong together with suling and percussion instruments.

References

Morgan, Deirdre (2008). Organs and Bodies: The Jew's Harp and the Anthropology of Musical Instruments (M.A. thesis). University of British Columbia.

Musical strings, wires, and instruments (list/HS list)

Bow Bridge Third bridge Chordophone Course Drone Enharmonicity Fingerboard Fret Fundamental/Harmonics/Overtones Longitudinal wave Long-string instrument Melde's experiment Mersenne's laws Monochord Music On A Long Thin Wire Node Re-entry Scale length Soundboard Standing wave String vibration Transverse wave Tuning peg

Monochords and musical bows	Berimbau Bladder fiddle Boom-ba Đàn bầu Diddley bow Duxianqin Ektara Ground bow Ichigenkin Japanese fiddle Jaw harp Đàn môi Genggong Gogona Morsing Mukkuri Langeleik Lesiba Masenqo Onavillu Psalmodicon Tromba marina Tumbi Umuduri Washtub bass

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