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via Borneo Post, 09 August 2023: The Borneo Cultures Museum is hosting a talk on August 20th about Borneo’s indigenous boat lutes, featuring discussions and research from the Borneo Boat Lute Revival collective, aiming to explore the instruments’ roots and significance, with additional talks planned until December.
“The talk is called ‘The Lost Instruments: Reviving Borneo’s Indigenous Boat Lutes’, where we will explore the roots of these instruments and tell the stories, the customs behind them, as well as the tunes originally played on them.
“(The lutes themselves) are the visible side of culture, but what we do not know is that the tunes that used to come out from these instruments – I think these are going to be showcased during the talk.
“We all know about the sape’ now. However at some point in the 1980s or even before that, very few people knew about the different music that the sape’ could produce, or even the customs behind them; for example, women and girls were not even allowed to touch a sape’,” said Friends of Sarawak Museum (FoSM) chairperson Datu Ose Murang during a press conference at Borneo Cultures Museum here yesterday.
Source: Upcoming talk at Borneo Cultures Museum to highlight cultural significance of boat lutes
