A K–8 classroom ensemble program
A whole class plays one melody. Each child holds one note.
A 25-lesson ensemble program for US schools, grades K–8, built on the angklung, a bamboo instrument from West Java, Indonesia.
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For parents: this page is part of your child's music class at school. It only plays music: no sign-in, no ads, nothing collected.
For schools that own a kit
- The Vault Enter the school code from the support card in your kit. This device remembers it, so you type it once. Open the Vault →
- Report a problem Put a red out-of-use sticker round the instrument's upper post, note it in your Maintenance Log (Appendix A), and tell us. Support →
- Warranty The warranty terms are on the support card in your kit. Warranty →
Buying Angklung Classroom for your school
- What's included 18 angklung per set with their stickers, the stand, sticker sheets, the Teacher Manual and access to the Multimedia Vault.
- Purchase orders and W-9 Ask us, and we'll tell you what applies to your order.
- Student data None is collected. The student pages have no sign-in and no forms.
- 25 lessons
- 5 weeks of five
- 45 minutes, the same six blocks
- 18 angklung per set
- 11 songs, three of them Indonesian
- 1 note per child
What a lesson looks like
Every one of the 25 lessons has the same shape.
Once you and your students know it, the room runs itself.
- Transition and grip clinic 0:00-0:05. Students collect their instrument from the stand, take their place in the horseshoe, and check the pendulum grip
- Conceptual hook 0:05-0:10. You deliver the day's idea in two minutes: a postcard from West Java, a physics fact, a word
- Kinetic warm-up 0:10-0:15. A drill without notation: the Living Scale, the Ping-Pong, a hand-sign follow-the-leader
- Core skill drill 0:15-0:35. The day's real work: reading, rehearsing, sectionals, the backing track
- Performance polishing 0:35-0:40. The same material off the page, eyes on the conductor
- Synthesis and teardown 0:40-0:45. One exit-ticket question, instruments back on the stand, silence on the way out
If you already teach music
If you teach with Orff instruments, color-coded classroom tubes, or a recorder unit, you already have most of what this program needs. The parts you say out loud are scripted, word for word, until you no longer need them.
Three ways to run it
A daily block over 5 weeks, weekly over a semester of 25–27 weeks, or an express unit of Lessons 1–5.
Kit 15 or Kit 30
Kit 15: classes up to 15, or larger classes using play partners. Kit 30: classes of 16 to 30, one instrument per student.
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- B
Five weeks of five
Lessons 1–5, the express unit, are underlined in yellow. NGSS marks a lesson that meets a science standard as written; C3, one that names the C3 Framework for social studies. Every lesson names two anchors of the National Core Arts Standards for Music.
Why schools trust it
A serious curriculum, from a real tradition.
- 2010 UNESCO inscribed the angklung on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The Program →
- Every lesson names two anchors of the National Core Arts Standards for Music. Standards →
- Replaced An instrument with a covered fault is replaced with the same pitch, never repaired in class. Support →
- No data Nothing is collected from students. The student pages have no sign-in and no forms. Privacy →
Nobody in your room can play a melody alone.
- 1938 Daeng Soetigna, a schoolteacher in Kuningan, West Java, tuned the angklung to the Western scale so his pupils could play the songs they knew.
- 2010 On 16 November 2010 UNESCO inscribed the angklung on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
- 3 songs Cing Cangkeling (Sundanese), Suwe Ora Jamu (Javanese) and Jali-Jali (Betawi), credited to their communities as traditional cultural expressions.
The Classroom Angklung Method
Three books, one program.
The Teacher Manual, and two student editions: Elementary (K–5) and Comprehensive (6–8).
What's in the kit
Made by hand in West Java.
- 18 angklung with their color stickers: the 15 the program plays, C5 to C7, plus three low tones, G4 A4 B4, for your own arrangements
- 1 stand
- 3 sticker sheets: out-of-use stickers, spare note stickers and student reward stickers
- 1 Teacher Manual, with access to the Multimedia Vault
Kit 15 is one set. Kit 30 is two identical sets.
- Kit 30 list price
- $4,500
- Kit 30 founding-school price
- $2,499
For music teachers and principals