Sjamsir Sjarif wrote: > > David E. Pauk, > > Dear David, > > A Minangkabau friend of mine Abrar Yusuf in Australia sent me your website > address: > > http://www.goodnet.com/~lyon/minangmusic.html > > I checked it immediately. I thanks Abrar about it and I will forward it to > other mailing lists and personal email addresses I can reach. > > I am impressed with your "saluang" personal experience which brought you to > the ethnomusicology. Introducing the Minangkabau music in your Web is one > contribution to the world music library info in the net and one step to > introducue the Minangkabau people and culture through your pesonal > experience. I personally and I believe the rest of Minangkabau people > appreciate your effort. I love saluang and all the "pantun"s sung to it. > The background saluang in your webpage make me homesick. I am playing it in > the background while typing this email. > > May I ask you a couple of personal questions. Where are you now and when > were you in Bukittinggi or in Minangkabau in general? I myself from > Bukittinggi and Abrar is from Payakumbuh. Both of us are self-exiled > Minangkabauers (Perantau Minang), Abrar is in Australia and I am in > California. > > While looking at your website, I notice a few minor typos which probably > you can edit easily. "Minangkabou" should be edited to become > "Minangkabau" while the Javanese orchestra "gamelon" should be edited to > become "gamelan". I am not sure about "Aske" which probably should be > "Aski" probably an abbreviation of "Akademi Seni Kerawitan Indonesia" which > I assume located in Padangpanjang. > > Good luck in your career. > > Best wishes, > -- Sjamsir Sjarif > PS. Angku Bandaro, please forwrd it to Rantaunet. Thanks. > X_________________________Sjamsir Sjarif > Indonesian Translator and Cultural Consultant > http://www.usindo.net/hambo > Tel (831)-426-1333 Fax (831)-426-8907 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ RantauNet http://www.rantaunet.com ================================================= Mendaftar atau berhenti menerima RantauNet Mailing List di http://www.rantaunet.com/subscribe.php3 ATAU Kirimkan email Ke / To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isi email / Messages, ketik pada baris/kolom pertama: - mendaftar: subscribe rantau-net [email_anda] - berhenti: unsubscribe rantau-net [email_anda] Ket: [email_anda] = isikan alamat email anda tanpa tanda kurung ================================================= WebPage RantauNet dan Mailing List RantauNet adalah servis dari EEBNET http://eebnet.com, Airland Groups, USA =================================================
