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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 people. Kudyapi – a two-stringed boat lute from Mindanao.
The kolitong is a bamboo polychordal tube zither from Bontok, Kalinga, Philippines with six strings that run parallel to its tube body. The strings are numbered from one to six, from lowest to highest pitch. The body acts as the instrument's resonator. The body may be a whole tube or a half tube.
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. Common to all kudyapi instruments, a constant drone is played with one string while the other, an octave above the ...
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.
Hornbostel–Sachs classification. 111.231. (Sets of percussion tubes) A bungkaka, also known as the bamboo buzzer is a percussion instrument (idiophone) made out of bamboo common in numerous indigenous tribes around the Philippines such as the Ifugao, Kalinga, and Ibaloi. [1]
Kulibit. The kulibit is a type of tube zither played by the Kalinga people of the Philippines. The instrument consists of a long tube of bamboo which has been slit to allow five or six strands of the bamboo husk to be played as "strings". [1]
The babendil. The babendil traditionally could be played by either genders. [5] In wooden kulintang ensembles, the kagul is usually substituted for the babendil part. [2] Among the Tausug, the Samal and the Yakan, their babendil-type instrument generally has gone into disuse (Instead, tempo is kept in check using the highest gong on the kulintangan .