“There are too many people who play the sape well but do not know the purpose of its music,” he said. The 40-year-old from Kampung Taee, Serian, has been playing the sape for 25 years now and ...

“Tusau Padan, was the first one who made the sape known to the world. After he passed away I took over. That guy was not only good at playing sape, he used to paint too, and did a lot of carving ...

Sape music, which originated from Sarawak#8217;s Orang Ulu community, is being performed for the first time in North America and Hawaii, where a group of leading musicians and artisans from the ...

Having joined PUSAK in 2021, Martinus has performed regularly at cultural events across Sarawak. Now in his final year at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, he hopes others his age will continue the ...

There were also very few sape teachers compared to the number of sape enthusiasts here in the capital, and even if they knew how to play it, not many people understood the history of the instrument.

The sape is a guitar-like traditional stringed instrument from Sarawak. Now a professional player, the 38-year-old said her love for the sape bloomed in 2012, during the final-year project for her ...

One of them is Alena Murang, a Kuching native who has been making a name for herself playing the sape, a traditional lute used in the island of Borneo. Together with her long-time mentor and sape ...

Now a professional sape player who brings this traditional musical instrument from the Land of the Hornbills to the global stage, Munirih, 38, said her love for the sape blossomed during her final ...

It is rare to see the sape being played, let alone at a children's storytelling session, but Murang, 27, often uses the heavy wooden instrument to accompany her renditions of traditional songs ...