Playing Angklung

The following are the explanation about how to hold, shake, and play angklung that believed to be true so far.

    * The position of angklung is the higher tube on the right of the player and the short one on the left, straight and not slant.
    * The left hand of the player hold the upper knot of angklung and the right hand hold the below side of angklung. The position of the left hand can grip the angklung both upside or downside. Both hands are in straight position.

    * The right hand is used to shake the angklung while the left hand only to hold the angklung without moving it. The movement of the right hand is from right to left and it is done quickly by wrist.
    * If a player holds more than one angklung, the bigger angklung is placed near the body. If the size quite big, angklung can be hold in arm of the player. If it is small, angklung is held by finger, but it should have space between one angklung from another, so it will not collide.

There are some ways to play angklung:
Long vibrate

Angklung is shaken long based tone played, so the melody will be played continuously.
Staccato

Angklung doesn’t shake as usual, but it is shaken in one beat so it produces short sound. To produce this sound, angklung is held by slanting the angklung and the base of the right tube is beaten to right hand.
Tengkep

It is played by bear or closes the small tube so it will not make any sound. The vibration of this way is still long and continuous. This way is done if we want to get finer sound.

taken from : http://www.angklung-udjo.co.id/