Genggong Candi Jaw Harp by Steev Kindwald

The Genggong Candi was made from the dark woody pieces of bark of the sugar palm (arenga pinnata). Steev Kindwald found and lovingly worked up the material, which is now only very rarely used to make jaw drums, in a village in eastern Bali. With the simple design, the stepped tongue and the noble palm wood, the musician and artist has oriented himself entirely to the traditional Balinese Genggongs. The Balinese, who have cultivated rice on their lush terraces for centuries, believe that everything around them has a soul. While planting rice, they played the genggong to imitate the croaking of the frogs. The ongoing struggle between nature and culture, life and death, chaos and order, is spiritually connected in the playing of the small Jew's harp.

A simple piece of jewelery with very good quality!