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  2. Traditional Philippine musical instruments - Wikipedia

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    Litguit – a three-stringed bamboo violin of the Aeta people; Butting – a bow with a single hemp 5 string, plucked with a small stick; Faglong – a two-stringed, lute-like instrument of the B'laan; made in 1997; Budlong – bamboo zither; Kolitong – a bamboo zither; Pas-ing – a two-stringed bamboo with a hole in the middle from Apayao ...

  3. Kutiyapi - Wikipedia

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    Common to all kudyapi instruments, a constant drone is played with one string while the other, an octave above the drone, plays the melody with a kabit or rattan pluck (commonly made from plastic nowadays). This feature, which is also common to other related Southeast Asian "boat lutes", also known as "crocodile lutes", are native to the region.

  4. Agung - Wikipedia

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    Agung Percussion instrument Classification Idiophone Hornbostel–Sachs classification 111.241.2 (Sets of gongs) Developed Indonesia The agung is a set of two wide-rimmed, vertically suspended gongs used by the Maguindanao, Maranao, Sama-Bajau and Tausug people of the Philippines as a supportive instrument in kulintang ensembles. The agung is also ubiquitous among other groups found in Palawan ...

  5. Philippine folk music - Wikipedia

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    Folk music musical instruments. The music of the Philippines' many Indigenous peoples are associated with the various occasions that shape life in indigenous communities, including day-to-day activities as well as major life-events, which typically include "birth, initiation and graduation ceremonies; courtship and marriage; death and funeral rites; hunting, fishing, planting and harvest ...

  6. Gabbang - Wikipedia

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    A gabbang consists of a set of trapezoidal bamboo bars of increasing length resting on a resonator. [2] The number of bars varies with the group that made them: Among Yakans, the number ranges from three to nine bamboo bars, but the common agung gabbang has five; among Tausugs, the number ranges from 14 to 22 bamboo bars, but the common gabbang has 12; and in Palawan, the common gabbang has five.

  7. Kulintang - Wikipedia

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    However, kulintang music differs in many aspects from gamelan music, primarily in the way the latter constructs melodies within a framework of skeletal tones and prescribed time interval of entry for each instruments. The framework of kulintang music is more flexible and time intervals are nonexistent, allowing for such things as improvisations ...

  8. Category : Indigenous South American musical instruments

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    Pages in category "Indigenous South American musical instruments" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  9. Diwas - Wikipedia

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    The Diwas is a native bamboo wind instrument from the Philippines that is a variation of the well-known pan flute or panpipes. It is made of bamboo, with one end closed with bamboo nodes. It does not have finger holes (or tone holes) like other popular aerophones, such as flutes. The Diwas compensates by grouping pipes of graduated lengths ...