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Pages in category "Philippine musical instruments" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
The luntang is a type of Philippine xylophone of the Maguindanaon people, strung vertically, with five horizontal logs hung in ascending order arranged by pitch. The Maguindanaon refer to this instrument as a luntang while the Yakan call it a kwintangan kayo. The cylindrical logs are beaten at the edge to create sounds and can be played either ...
Unlike Western music tradition, which depends largely on musical notes in producing melody, Indigenous music in the Philippines depends highly on rhythm. This is why sizes, length, radius, etc. of instruments in the Philippines have no fixed value where these values are important in producing pitch .
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 ...
The Philippines is known to have the first hip-hop music scene in Asia, emerging in the early 1980s, largely due to the country's historical connections with the United States where hip-hop originated. Rap music released in the Philippines has appeared in different languages such as Tagalog, Chavacano, Cebuano, Ilocano, and English.
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.
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The instrument is usually described as four, large, shallow-bossed, thin-rimmed gongs, vertically hung, either from a strong support such as a tree limb or housed in a strong wooden framed stand. The gongs are arranged in graduated fashion in pairs with knobs of the lower-pitched gongs facing each other and the higher-pitched gongs doing the same.