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Sape resurgence: A musical upbeat of tradition and arts

If music be the food of love, play on, give me excess of it that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken and so die. That strain again, it had a dying fall. —  Shakespeare, Twelfth Night ‘If music be the food of love, play on’ are the words of Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s play The Twelfth […]

A new twist to the sape

In Sarawak, the sape is a traditional instrument of the Kenyah, Kayan, Kelabit, Penan and other ethnic tribes of the Orang Ulu community. According to legend, the sape came about through a dream of a Kenyah man, who went into the forest to look for medicinal herbs for his sick wife after several shamans failed […]