PERCUSSION INSTRUMENT CERAMIC DESIGN FOR RELAXATION

Abstract

This research, a percussion instrument, is designed with the purpose to help raise the level of relaxation music activities using instruments to accompany the extent of the body’s rhythmic sound of Carl Orff teachings. The selected sample group of 30 participants, who began to practice playing percussion instruments at the Duak Music. They were asked to identify the most suitable percussion for each body part based on the type of clay bodies and glazes fired at 1200 °C. The choice of statistics used were mean, standard deviation, and percentage. The results showed that the lip pattern is related to the reverberation, and the tone is related to the thickness of the casting, the overlapping of clay bodies, and the knocking on the bottom of the uncoated part of the product which yielded a narrow sound. As a result, the sound is clear when knocking on the metal head. There were four designs of the percussion instruments. In summary, the satisfactory level rated by experts a percussion instrument, with the fingers “type 2” was very appropriate (  = 4.00, SD = 0.97). As for hands “type 3”, it showed a very high degree of suitability (  = 3.98, SD = 1.08). As for the upper legs, the 3rd form was very appropriate ( = 4.01, SD = 0.80) and for the feet portion, the first model had a very high level of suitability (  = 3.97, SD = 0.93). Regarding the satisfaction toward simplicity among the beginner percussion, it was found that the finger part had a high level of satisfaction (  = 4.07). On the hand, there was a high level of satisfaction (  = 3.81). The upper-leg part had high level of satisfaction ( = 3.74), and the feet part had a high level of satisfaction (  = 3.79).