Sasando

On the island of Timor and its surrounding areas. Palmyra trees grow a lot of nature are found in the wild, although some of the other trees do not grow well in this regard. Therefore,it is not surprising, as the Palmyra citizens of East Timor and relies mainly on their lives, but also as a marine. Palmyra most from every part of the tree is used for some ways, to support their daily lives. Rate of return is the consumption of the young; its juice issued to obtain palm / brown sugar, fresh drinks and alcoholic beverages, its root cause is drug use, its trunk and branches for construction; and its leaves are used to create a lot of Crafts varieties: a bucket of water spoon, hats, sandals, roof homes, and the strange tradition of musical instruments, sasando create resonance.

There are two types of sasando collection. The first is from Rhode Island, and the other one is used by the citizen from Sabu Island. South East Timor Island is close to the rote. In rote learning community, singing and playing sasando along with a little drums. However, In the Sabu community, however, two sasando are played collectively with a vocal part just without a drum.

The sasando made up by a unfilled piece of bamboo, with a woody head and foot. The previous sasando variants had ten strings that stretched from head to foot along, and ends with nails to tighten. The nail on the head can move around to change the setting to adjust the string tension. This sound source sits inside a semi-spherical resonator created from leaves of the palmyra tree. A small sasando can be thirty centimetre wide, though a large one may be fifty centimetre long and thirty centimetre wide.

There are two sasando music used in the adjustment programs, which are both pentatonic. First, the rote of the citizens on the island, including bills is the same: C - E - F - G - B - C of the western scale. Second (Sabu Island sasando) is similar to the notes: C - D - E - G - A - C scale of the western

Sasando music is used in East Timorese society, for the whole community activities such as celebrating the baby's birth, marriage or death ceremony varieties. sasando in these occasions, to add atmosphere to play, perform in accordance with festive nature of the homophobic selection. As the celebrations to mark the birth of a baby or wedding ceremony, happy, lively music, when a funeral, sad music and cheering the essence of play to the console table in the family has lost a beloved musical celebration.