Celempungan
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Celempungan is a Sundanese musical genre that includes several musical instruments such as kacapi, kendang, goong/gong, and suling or rebab (optional), and Juru Kawih (singer). Kendang, the drum, controls the tempo of the ensemble and reinforces the meter.
Celempungan is named for the celempung, a bamboo tube zither from West Java.<ref name="Spiller"/> Celempungan ensembles had their golden era from 1935 to 1945.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In modern celempungan ensembles, the celempung may be replaced by the siter, kacapi, and kendang.<ref name="Spiller"/> Troupes' musical repertoires include gamelan salendro kliningan.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Dutch ethnomusicologist Jaap Kunst described celempungan in his 1973 book Music in Java: Template:Quote