Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Lesung

Lesung is a wooden-made tools used to pound rice in the past Javanese culture of agricultural society in post-harvesting session. But it has changed nowadays, it is to be a sort of Javanese music piece in the present Javanese society. It exists at Sanggar Seni Sekarjagad at Kotakan village, Sukoharjo Regency, Central Java, Indonesia. Mostly the old women of Kotakan villagers play it and some children practice it to preserve.

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