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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