Category:Hasapi (Indonesian string instrument)

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References[edit]

  • Henry Spiller (2004) "Glossary [hasapi]" in Michael B. Bakan , ed. Gamelan - The Traditional Sounds of Indonesia, World Music Series, vol.1, ABC-CLIO, p. 278 ISBN: 978-1-85109-506-3. "hasapi Toba Batak instruments with two plucked strings"
  • Henry Spiller ([2004] 2008/2010) "Part I Music and Southeast Asian History. Chapter 1 Sotheast Asian Musical Processes. §Sotheast Asia. §Ecology, culture, and music" in Focus: Gamelan Music of Indonesia (2nd ed.), Taylor & Francis, p. 12 ISBN: 978-1-135-90190-5.
    "​Very often both bronze and bamboo musical instruments bear names that imitate the sounds they make. ... / Subsequent cultural waves in Sotheast Asia added more and more layers of technology for Southeast Asian musical instruments. ... / Very often the names of these new musical instruments betray their origins. Among the instruments depicted on Hindu monuments are plucked stringed instruments with box resonators; a variety of modern Southern Asian plucked string instruments, including kudyapi from the Philippines, kacapi from West Java, krajappi from Thailand, and hasapi from Smatra, have names derived from the same Sanskrit root, kacchapa, which can refer to a particular kind of tree (cedrela toona); ... "

Further reading[edit]

Museum collections
  • Hasapi (20th century, Toba Batak, Sumatra, Indonesia) [1982.144]. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
    "Artwork Details",
    "Title: Hasapi ",
    "Date: 20th century ",
    "Geography: Sumatra, Indonesia ",
    "Culture: Indonesia (Sumatra, Toba Batak) ",
    "Medium: Wood ",
    "Dimensions: L. 23 1/16 × W. 3 7/16 × D. 2 15/16 in. (58.6 × 8.8 × 7.5 cm) ",
    "Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-unfretted ",
    "Credit Line: Gift of David P. Bassine, 1982 ",
    "Accession Number: 1982.144 ",
    "Provenance David P. Bassine "