Imalnod Elementary School

Imalnod, Legazpi City

FOUR CLASSIFICATIONS
OF THE
PHILIPPINE MUSICAL
INSTRUMENT

Ipinasa ni:

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Ipinasa kay:
Mr. Esteban Llaneta

AEROPHONES
  any of a class of musical instruments in which a vibrating mass of air produces the initial sound.
The basic types include woodwind, brass, and free-reed instruments, as well as instruments that
fall into none of these groups, such as the bull-roarer and the siren. Bagpipes and organs
are hybrids with different kinds of pipes. The word aerophone replaces the term wind
instrument when an acoustically based classification is desired.

 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

Bulungudyong

Palendag

Diwas

Tongali Tumpong

Tambuli
Tulali
CHORDOPHONES
  any of a class of musical instruments in which a stretched, vibrating string produces the initial
sound. The five basic types are bows, harps, lutes, lyres, and zithers. The name chordophone
replaces the term stringed instrument when a precise, acoustically based designation is required.

 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

Litguit

Kudyapi

Kolitong Pas-ing

MEMBRAPHONES
 any of a class of musical instruments in which a stretched membrane vibrates to produce sound.
Besides drums, the basic types include the mirliton, or kazoo, and the friction drum (sounded
by friction produced by drawing a stick back and forth through a hole in the membrane).

 According to shape, drums are classified as barrel, conical, cylindrical, footed, frame, goblet,
long, vessel, and waisted. The names membranophone and idiophone (instruments whose solid,
resonant body vibrates to produce sound) replace the looser term percussion instruments when
an acoustically based classification is required.

 Dabakan – goblet drum (Maranao)

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

Dabakan

Sulibao

Libbit

IDIOPHONES
 lass of musical instruments in which a resonant solid material—such as wood, metal, or stone
—vibrates to produce the initial sound. The eight basic types are concussion, friction,
percussion, plucked, scraped, shaken, stamped, and stamping. In many cases, as in the gong,
the vibrating material itself forms the instrument’s body. Other examples
include xylophones and rattles.

 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, Tausū g)
 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
 Bungkaka

Agung

Kulintang

Gandingan

Tongatong

Saronay