Sasando

Sasando is a stringed musical instrument. This music instrument originated from the island of Rote, East Nusa Tenggara. Literally Sasando according to the origin of the name he said in Rote, sasandu, which means a tool that vibrates or rings. It is said sasando use among community Rote since the 7th century. There is similarity with the shape sasando other stringed instruments like guitar, violin and harp.

The main part of long tubular sasando commonly made ​​from bamboo. Then in the middle, a circular from top to bottom are wedge-wedge in which the strings (strings) stretched in the tube, from top to bottom rests. Wedge-wedge gives a different tone to each chord passages. Then the tube was placed sasando in a container made ​​from a kind of woven palm leaves made ​​out like a fan. The scaffold is a place of resonance sasando.