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    Samaon Sulaiman is a Filipino musician recognized as a National Living Treasure for his mastery of the kutyapi, a traditional three-stringed boat-lute. He learned to play kutyapi from his uncle at age 13. The kutyapi is unique to certain indigenous groups in the Philippines like the Palawano people, and features beeswax frets on its four to six foot wooden body. In addition to kutyapi, Samaon is also skilled in Kulintang, an ancient musical tradition composed using melodic gongs and larger suspended gongs accompanied by drums.

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    Samaon Sulaiman is a Filipino musician recognized as a National Living Treasure for his mastery of the kutyapi, a traditional three-stringed boat-lute. He learned to play kutyapi from his uncle at age 13. The kutyapi is unique to certain indigenous groups in the Philippines like the Palawano people, and features beeswax frets on its four to six foot wooden body. In addition to kutyapi, Samaon is also skilled in Kulintang, an ancient musical tradition composed using melodic gongs and larger suspended gongs accompanied by drums.

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    Tutoy Report

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    Mohan William Sharma
    Samaon Sulaiman is a Filipino musician recognized as a National Living Treasure for his mastery of the kutyapi, a traditional three-stringed boat-lute. He learned to play kutyapi from his uncle at age 13. The kutyapi is unique to certain indigenous groups in the Philippines like the Palawano people, and features beeswax frets on its four to six foot wooden body. In addition to kutyapi, Samaon is also skilled in Kulintang, an ancient musical tradition composed using melodic gongs and larger suspended gongs accompanied by drums.

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    Samaon Sulaiman

    • He was a Filipino musician who is a recipient of the National


    Living Treasure award. The Maguindanaon is known for his
    mastery of the indigenous kutyapi instrument. Sulaiman first
    leaned playing kutyapi at around 13 years old from his uncle.
    Kudyapi or Kutiyapi
    • It is a Philippine three-stringed, fretted boat-lute. It is the only
    stringed instrument among the Palawano people, and one of
    several among other groups such as the Maranao and Manobo.
    It is four to six feet long with nine frets made of hardened
    beeswax.
    • Aside from kutyapi, Samaon is also proficient in Kulintang.
    Kulintang

    • Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of


    music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that
    function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs
    and drums.

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