Kacapi, adalah alat musik tradisional dari Jawa Barat, Indonesia. Alat musik kecapi ini terbuat dari kotak kayu hampir berbentuk balok dengan desain khusus. Tembang Sunda and
kacapi suling are important expressions of Sundanese cultural identity.
Tembang Sunda (also known as Cianjuran) emerged in the latter half of
the 19th century as an entertainment for the aristocracy in and around
the court of the Regent of Cianjur. Sundanese poetry was traditionally
never read in a speaking voice, but always sung to standardized,
syllabic melodies corresponding to the poetic metre (wawacan). Tembang
Sunda developed in Cianjur as a way of setting Sundanese texts to highly
melismatic and ornamented melodies. It is accompanied by kacapi
(zither) and suling (bamboo flute).
The core of the
tembang Sunda repertoire consists of mamaos, songs which are
rhythmically very free. The kacapi player needs to adjust his timing,
cues and phrase lengths to the singer. Tembang Sunda also absorbed
pieces from several very different styles of Sundanese music, notably
pantun, gamelan degung and gamelan salendro. Pantun is a narrative
genre, now very rarely performed, in which a solitary bard (often blind)
accompanies himself on a kacapi, and narrates and sings epic Sundanese
stories. Performances last from early evening to the small hours of the
morning. Songs from the gamelan repertoires were introduced later in
the development of tembang Sunda. They are tagged on to the end of a
set of mamaos songs, and referred to as panambih: “extra” songs.
Panambih are readily recognizable, as the smaller kacapi joins in, and
the phrase lengths begin to move in units of four. They are normally
only sung by women. The real tembang Sunda aficionados tend to look
down their nose at the panambih, which they regard as mere easy
listening. Kacapi suling means the performance of panambih tunes
without a singer. 
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