Angklung is a traditional Indonesian musical instrument made of bamboo, which sounded shaken by (the sound caused by the impact of bamboo pipe body) that produces a sound that vibrates in the composition of tones 2, 3, and 4 tones in every size, both large and small. Barrel (tone) angklung instruments as Sundanese traditional music is mostly Salendro and pelog.

Angklung is an innovative Udjo. According to the leadership of ‘Saung Angklung Udjo Ngalagena, Taufik Hidayat Udjo’, angklung also able to accompany fashion shows or other activities. This is an innovation that children have their own country. In order to survive, it must maintain the innovation and create innovations that the new and latest. Angklung in a modern touch, he said, can accompany a variety of songs such as pop or dangdut. He also said that not just the music Angklung bamboo. He is filled with educational values. Music is not the end goal, just the process of playing Angklung is important. Angklung game contained in the values of mutual cooperation, discipline, creativity, dexterity, concentration and responsibility.

Angklung had existed before the beginning of the Sunda kingdom established in the year 952 Saka, or 1030 AD. This data comes from an inscription found in the Regional Cibadak, Kapupaten Sukabumi, West Java. Meanwhile there was also noted that angklung already in the Kingdom of Sunda before or Pakuan Padjadjaran Kingdom ruled at Bogor. In addition, there is information about the angklung also in the Book of the State Kertagama in Canto 11: 7, which is about the use of angklung to greet the King Hayam Wuruk.

Angklung own sounds from time to time looking through development. In angklung Buhun, according to some experts there are only three musical tones called tritonik. Furthermore, the artists of his time developing angklung scales are so-called five-tone pentatonic.