Angklung Ensemble/ Himig

Pangkat
Kawayan
https://youtu.be/C35luDCb2JY
Himig Pangkat Kawayan is the “Singing Bamboos of the
Philippines.” This is an orchestral group of bamboo
instruments, and it came from the initiatives of elementary
schools in
Quezon City and Manila. Victor Toledo managed the first
Himig Pangkat Kawayan in its formation on September 6,
1966. He became the conductor and music director of the
group.
The musical instruments involved in the orchestra are
numbered to be more than a hundred.

These bamboo instruments are in different sizes, designs,

and shapes. Terms such as these would pertain to the
instrument it was made to be:
 Bumbong
A sounding bamboo
tube that when blown
produces a pitch.
 Talunggating
Bamboo marimba
played by a pair of
mallets that plays the
melody.
 Kalagong

An instrument that
sounds like a hollow
gong when tapped by
flat and flexible
surface tappers. It
plays the bass line.
Tulali - bamboo
flute.