Balinese Shakers

Balinese Shakers – These rattles are still used by throughout the region in rituals and ceremonies by Dakun. A Dakun is an Indonesian shaman. There are still many Shaman in Bali.

They are made from rainforest seeds and wood traditionally shaken during festivals and rituals

Hand made in Indonesia.

Handheld

We sell a wide variety of other hand percussion, drums and musical instruments from around the world.

Our items are fairly traded and difficult-to-find items. We source every item personally in the country.

All our balinese musical instruments are handmade in Bali by Darma and Nanang. We have been working with Darma since 2008 and Nanang since 2017.

We sell many handcrafted items from Indonesia. Indonesia has so many amazing indigenous crafts.

We sell more musical instruments from Bali in our other listings. 

We stock many of the kinds of crafts that Bali is rightly famous for and are small part of supporting the craftwork industry there and ensuring that the skills built up over generations are not lost.

Balinese Shakers Background

he Music of Bali, Bali is an Indonesian island that shares in the gamelan and other Indonesian musical styles. Bali, however, has its own techniques and styles, including kecak, a form of singing that imitates the sound of monkeys.

In addition, the island is home to several unique kinds of gamelan, including the gamelan jegog, gamelan gong gede, gamelan gambang, gamelan selunding and gamelan semar pegulingan, the cremation music angklung and the processional music bebonangan.

Modern popular styles include gamelan gong kebyar, dance music which developed during the Dutch occupation and 1950s era joged bumbung, another popular dance style.

In Balinese music you can also hear metallophones, gongs and xylophones.

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