Biography

Philippine traditional musical instruments are commonly grouped into four categories: aerophones, chordophones, membranophones, and idiophones.^[1][2]

Aerophones

• Bulungudyong – vertical flute (Pinatubo Ayta)
• Diwas
• Palendag – lip-valley flute (Kalinga)
• Tongali – nose flute (Kalinga)
• Tumpong – bamboo flute
• Tulali – flute with 6 holes
• Bansik – bamboo flute with three holes of the Negrito people in Zambales
• Tambuli – Carabao horn

Chordophones

• 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 people
• Kudyapi – a two-stringed boat lute from Mindanao

Membranophones

• Dabakan – goblet drum (Maranao)
• Gandang – double-headed barrel drum (Maranao)
• Libbit – conical drum (Ifugao)
• Sulibao – conical drum (Ibaloi)
• Gambal – war drums

Idiophones

• Agung a tamlang – bamboo (slit drum)
• Agung – large gong suspended from an ornate frame
• 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 (Maguindanaon)
• Kulintang a tiniok – set of eight, tuned knobbed metal plates strung on a wooden frame (Maguindanaon)
• Babandil – small gong
• Saronay – eight tuned knobbed metal plates strung over a wooden frame (Maranao)
• Tongatong – stamping tubes of the Kalinga people

References

Sources

• Canave-Dioquino, Corazon. "Philippine Music Instruments". National Commission for Culture and the Arts. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved 22 September 2023.
• Manuel, E. Arsenio (1978). "Towards an Inventory of Philippine Musical Instruments: A Checklist of the Heritage from Twenty-three Ethnolinguistic Groups" (PDF). Asian Studies. Quezon City, Philippines: University of the Philippines Diliman. OCLC 6593501. Archived from the original (PDF) on September 20, 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
• Dioquino, Corazon (October 22, 2009). "Philippine Bamboo Instruments". Humanities Diliman: A Philippine Journal of Humanities. 5 (1&2). University of the Philippines Diliman. ISSN 2012-0788. Archived from the original on June 23, 2011. Retrieved September 22, 2023.

External links

• Media related to Musical instruments of the Philippines at Wikimedia Commons