No. KUNST1942-001
Ternate bubuwas
Indonesia · Ternate, North Moluccas · Southeast Asia
Function not recorded
bubuwas
Source term: Schwirrholz / bullroarer
bubuwas: the Ternate (North Moluccas) name for the bullroarer, recorded by Kunst from a Batavia Museum specimen.
The Ternate roarer is a bamboo lath of the ordinary Indonesian pattern — flat, pierced at one end for its cord — but bigger than any of its relatives. Set beside the roarers of Flores, Alor, Java and Nias, the bubuwas of the North Moluccas is the outsized member of the family. The name belongs to Ternate itself.
Schwirrholz (bubuwas), welches dem genannten Instr. von Flores, Alor, Java und Nias ähnelt, aber größere Maße hat.
Bullroarer (bubuwas), which resembles the said instrument from Flores, Alor, Java and Nias, but is larger in size.
Jaap Kunst, 'Indonesische Musik', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st ed., vol. 6, col. 1195
Particulars
- Object
- A flat bamboo lath pierced at one end for its cord, of the Flores type, but noticeably larger than the Flores, Alor, Java and Nias examples.
- Function
- Not recorded.
Sources
- Jaap Kunst, Music in Flores (Leiden: Brill, 1942), p. 158 View · archived
- Jaap Kunst, 'Indonesische Musik', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, 1st ed., vol. 6, col. 1195; reprinted in Aussereuropäische Musik in Einzeldarstellungen (1980), p. 355, and in English as Indonesian Music and Dance (Amsterdam, 1994), p. 191