Saung Angklung Mang Udjo Indonesia

Now is the time we are on holiday in a unique way, namely by playing angklung! Bandung is full of creativity and art holds a place at the center of our national cultural heritage in the field of folk music instruments namely Angklung. The name of this place is Saung Angklung Udjo or often abbreviated SAU. Some people also call with Saung Angklung Mang Udjo.
In accordance with the place name, does this place was founded by Udjo Ngalagena was accompanied by his wife Uum Sumiati. This place is the only place that became the center of art and also produces angklung angklung. This is what makes Saung Angklung Udjo as an education and research center angklung Sundanese arts and culture.
With a background in uniting culture and nature, Saung Angklung Udjo drew the attention of tourists both from within the country and from abroad. Viewed from any performance  always full of foreign tourists. Saung Angklung Udjo is located in East Bandung, in this place is the perfect place to enjoy the beauty of traditional musical instruments derived from bamboo.
Address Saung Angklung Udjo precisely located in Padasuka Road No. 118, East Bandung. Access to this place is easy because through the main street. If you drive a private car came out at the Pasteur toll flyover Pasupati then skip down to the last Soerapatti road leads to the left you have reached the Padasuka.
With great signposts towards SAU, you will not stray toward this place. However, if you choose to ride public transportation, please choose public transportation with Cicaheum majors, just say the minivan drivers that you want to get off at Saung Mang Udjo, because the place was only about 500 meters before reaching the terminal Cicaheum public transportation.
From there you just continue to their destination by motorcycle taxi (fare: 5000-7000 rupiah) Once you get to Saung Mang Udjo area, you will see a vast parking lot surrounded by bamboo trees. Step forward with your feet to the lobby to buy tickets costing 60,000 rupiah on weekdays and 75,000 on Saturdays and Sundays.
The price includes a welcome drink, and watch the show for 2 hours. Shows are held every day at 9:00 and 15:30. Before entering the hall to show, you can stroll around Saung Mang Udjo to see crafts and souvenirs that were there.
There, you can see the exotic richness of Sundanese culture, there are also guides who are ready to satisfy your curiosity about the culture Aunda, angklung or about the show that will be seen.
Before the show began we recommend that you prepare yourself to take a seat. If you arrive late you might have a place to sit in the back so as to enjoy the event be less than the maximum.
Do not forget to bring a snack, because it shows for 2 hours of course you do not want to watch while stomach rumbling right? And for those of you who are planning to come during the afternoon, you should bring insect repellent is also topical, the atmosphere around the trees in this area allow mosquitoes to arrive. Schedule shows in Saung Mang Udjo vary greatly, we recommend that you read the schedule of the event in order to know about the art of what you will enjoy.
Some performances are often staged in Saung Mang Udjo is a demonstration Marionette Puppet. Long show is about 10- 15 minutes, usually this show tells the story of the people who peppered with humor typical urang Bandung. Shows are simple but can make you laugh out loud by the hilarious dialogue puppeteer. Other performances are Helaran, Helaran are in the hold of a thanksgiving ritual for example for a new child in the circumcision / cutting.
In this show there are all kinds of Sundanese dance, singing and musical instrument angklung course. Here staged by proteges of Saung Angklung Mang Udjo themselves, their average age is still below 10 years.
Other performances are staged at this resort is Arumba and Angklung Mini, here we can see how beautiful instrumental music combined with dance Sundanese of West Java which produces highly tunable arts heard and seen.
After all the performances staged, exciting moment came where the audience are invited to play angklung together with the performers. Each audience lent 1 piece angklung whose aim will be played simultaneously.
Each audience has their respective duties to play a tone, and the implementation of the song led by the conductor of music that is in the middle of the hall. Spectators were given instructions to follow the cue from the conductor, if the conductor gave the code by hand then the audience may sound an angklung in each hand.
To ring the angklung also need to know the technique, if we are wrong then it might hold his angklung no noise at all. But calm, before the show starts, we will be taught how to ring the angklung appropriately. After running the music you will begin to feel to be the orchestra in the middle of Sundanese art is gorgeous, truly unforgettable experience.
If you still want to be in the middle of an exotic atmosphere at Saung Angklung Mang Udjo, you can decide to spend the night here. Saung Angklung mang Udjo equipped with accommodation facilities or guest house with bedroom rents ranging from 300 thousand to 850 thousand.
But if you do not want to spend the night do not forget to buy a souvenir of this historic place, Saung Mang Udjo sell a variety of crafts ranging from key chains,, bags, slippers, stuffed puppet show, until you could also have a set of angklung to your practice at home ,