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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 ...
The takumbo is a parallel-stringed tube zither made from bamboo, and is found in the Philippines. It is made from a heavy bamboo tube about 40 cm long, with both ends closed with a node. Two strands of strings, about 5 cm apart, are partially etched out from the body of the bamboo. Small wooden bridges are inserted beneath the strings at both ends.
The Philippine harp bandurria is a 14-string bandurria used in many Philippine folkloric songs, with 16 frets and a shorter neck than the 12-string bandurria. [2] This instrument most likely evolved in the Philippines during the Spanish period, from 1521 to 1898. The Filipino bandurria (also banduriya [7]) is used in an orchestra of plucked ...
The kutiyapi, or kudyapi, is a Philippine two-stringed, fretted boat-lute. It is four to six feet long with nine frets made of hardened beeswax. The instrument is carved out of solid soft wood such as that from the jackfruit tree.
Kulintang a tiniok is a Maguindanaon term meaning "kulintang with string," but they also could call them kulintang a putao, meaning "kulintang of metal." The Maranao refer to this instrument as a sarunay (or salunay, salonay, saronay, saronai or sarunai), terminology which has become popular for this instrument in North America. This is ...
A Kolitong's wooden frets. The frets are moved along the length of the string to adjust the string's pitch. A Kolitong's node. A hole is made on the node to improve the instrument's resonance. Polychordal tube zithers are widespread in the Philippines. They are found in the Cordilleras and in the Mindanao and Palawan area.
The hegelung is a wooden two-stringed lute played by the Tboli, an animist ethnolinguistic group of southern Mindanao in the Philippines. The instrument is tall and slender, with nine frets. One string is used as a drone, and the other for melodic ornamentation. The performer playing the hegelung usually plays while dancing or with body ...
Philippine folk instruments (3 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Philippine musical instruments" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total.