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The document describes several traditional musical instruments from different ethnic groups in the Philippines. It discusses the tongkaling instrument used by the B'laan group in dances around a log drum. It also mentions the nose flute called tongali that some stories say was used by the Kalingga group to help rice grow. Finally, it provides details on instruments like the kutiyapi, kuratung, and gandingan used by various groups for accompanying songs, signaling arrivals, and long-distance communication.

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The document describes several traditional musical instruments from different ethnic groups in the Philippines. It discusses the tongkaling instrument used by the B'laan group in dances around a log drum. It also mentions the nose flute called tongali that some stories say was used by the Kalingga group to help rice grow. Finally, it provides details on instruments like the kutiyapi, kuratung, and gandingan used by various groups for accompanying songs, signaling arrivals, and long-distance communication.

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Tongkaling

Group: B'laan

The girdle with tongkaling is used during the


performance of a dance around a logdrum (the 'udul; 'u'
pronounced as in 'enough') on which the woman with
the two beaters plays a steady rhythm and the dancer
plays complex syncopic rhythms interlocking with the
sound of the two beaters.

Tongali The tongali is one of numerous traditional instruments that students can study at UP. There are stories
from this region that say that the nose flute was used to help rice grow when it was young, as the rice was attracted to
the soft sounds of the flute, and would grow to put its ear above the water to hear it better.

Group: Kalingga
Kutiyapi also used as an accompanying instrument to bayoka or epic chants. is also used as a bowed instrument and is
generally played to accompany improvised songs.

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Kuratung-popular musical instrument from


the Banwaon tribe.

Importance: A Kuratong is an instrument


whose sounds signal an arrival of visitors or a
transient in the community. This is also used
for transmitting codified messages from one
person or group to the other. It is also used in
festival to celebrate
When played solo, the gandingan allows fellow Maguindanao to communicate with each other, allowing them to send
messages or warnings via long distances. This ability to imitate tones of the Maguindanao language using this instrument
has given the gandingan connotation: the “talking gongs.”

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