Kolintang

Kolintang is typical instrument Minahasa, North Sulawesi. Kolintang made from local wood, but strong light such as eggs, bandaran, arbitrary, kakinik cempaka wood, and which has a parallel fiber construction.

Kolintang name comes from her voice: a barrel (low tone), ting (high tone) and pliers (normal tone). In the local language, the invitation "Let's do TONG TING TANG" is: "Mangemo kumolintang". This invitation was eventually turned into kolintang said.

Some of the group known as Kadoodan, Tamporok, which already exist Mawenang more than 35 tahun.Pembuat kolintang spread in Minahasa and on the island of Java, one of the famous maker Peter kolintang Kaseke