Balinese Flute – Seruling Flute 

Flute Seruling – Direct from Bali, Indonesia! We sell other flutes too from Indonesia, Bolivia and Vietnam.

Flute Seruling Dimensions

34cm / 13″ long approx

This is not a professional instrument, it is a fun instrument the local people of Bali use

They are not professional quality – they are for beginners/ practice / fun. Scorched wood technique design.

Hand-made in Bali, Indonesia.

Hand made so design may vary

The seruling or suling flute is an Indonesian bamboo ring flute. Originating from Sundanese music in West Java, Indonesia.It is popular in many other Southeast Asian countries including Brunei, Malaysia, Philippines, and Singapore. It is used in gamelan ensembles.is used in the famous Indonesian gamelan orchestras. Gamelan is the traditional ensemble music of the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese peoples of Indonesia, made up predominantly of percussive instruments.The most common instruments used are metallophones played by mallets and a set of hand-played drums called kendhang which register the beat. The kemanak (a banana shaped idiophone)   gangsa (another metallophone) and bamboo flutes are commonly used gamelan instruments in Java & Bali.

We sell a large variety of unusual musical instruments from around the world, not only wind instruments.

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.

Bali 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.

More information on balinese musical instruments