On Saturday, our last day in Bandung, we searched out a traditional musical instrument workshop we had read about. At this workshop they make bamboo musical instruments (as well as other handicrafts). One of the things the boys liked the most was a green puppet on the wall -- one of the workers (sitting behind the rows of puppets in the picture) would pull a string and make the puppet's head lunge out at the boys. They thought it was hilarious (both the worker and our boys).
Here's Luke sitting in one of those chairs where two people can carry you -- where are Nash and Grant when you need them?
This workshop also had a very large bat, though we're not sure why.
When we returned to our house on Saturday, we tried playing the instruments we had just purchased -- an Angklung (8 bamboo pipes (or more) which you play by shaking the bamboo pipe), a bamboo flute-type instrument, and a drum. The Angklung is a traditional Sundanese instrument, and our driver, Cartim, is Sundanese (from West Java, not too far from here), so he showed us how to play it. At the workshop they gave us the music to play a couple of songs on the Angklung, and Cartim gave us a little performance.
