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Bungkaka (ubbeng) Kalinga people. A bungkaka, also known as the bamboo buzzer is a percussion instrument made out of bamboo common in numerous indigenous tribes around the Philippines such as the Ifugao, Kalinga, and Ibaloi. [1]
Bungkaka – bamboo buzzer; Gandingan – set of four large hanging knobbed gongs; Kagul – scraper; Kulintang – set of eight tuned gongs placed horizontally in an ornate frame, tuned pentatonic scale|pentatonically. Gabbang – bamboo xylophone (Yakan, Batak, B'laan, Sama-Bajau, Tausūg) Luntang – wooden beams hanging from a frame ...
The instrument is played by blowing on the embouchure of the instrument. The embouchure has two distinct sides, but either can be used to play the instrument. When playing on the side with the shorter cut, the instrument produces a higher pitch than when playing on the side with the longer cut.
In South and South East Asia, traditional uses of bamboo the instrument include various types of woodwind instruments, such as flutes, and devices like xylophones and organs, which require resonating sections. In some traditional instruments bamboo is the primary material, while others combine bamboo with other materials such as wood and leather.
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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.
The kubing is traditionally considered an intimate instrument, usually used as communication between family or a loved one in close quarters. Both genders can use the instrument, the females more infrequently than males who use it for short distance courtship.
This musical instrument is a traditional Sundanese musical instrument, which is also known and developed in the Banyumas region. When playing the calung rantay , the player usually plays by sitting cross-legged, while a person playing calung jinjing carries the bamboo that has been lined up and plays it while standing.