INDIGENOUS MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

OF THE CORDILLERA

❑Play a very important role

in their ceremonies, rituals
and celebrations
❑Accompany dances and
rituals
 CHORDOPHONES
-instruments that create a sound by
strumming, plucking or using a bow to
play the strings
 KOLITONG
❑ Bamboo zither
with 6-10
parallel strings
❑ Played by
plucking the
strings of the
zither
 AEROPHONES
- Instruments which produce sound as
the air blown vibrates inside a tube
 TONGALI

❑Nose flute
of the
Kalinga
people
SAGGEYPO

● Usually six pipes

in a row,
unattached to each
other
● Played separately
by six performers,
each one blowing
on a pipe
 IDIOPHONES
- Instruments which produce sound by
striking, strumming, shaking or scraping
 GANGSA

❑flat gong (without boss)

made of bronze
❑May be played with a mallet
(gangsa palook) or with bare
hands (gangsa toppaya)
GANGSA PALOOK
GANGSA TOPPAYA
 PATANGGUK

❑ Quill-shaped
tubes
❑ Made of one
internode of
bamboo
❑ Struck against
a piece of
hardwood
 BUNGKAKA

❑Bamboo buzzers
❑Used to drive away
evil spirits along a
forest trail
 BUNGKAKA

❑ Sound is
produced by
striking the
split end
against the
palm of the
hand
 TONGATONG
❑ Bamboo
stamping tubes
❑ Played by
striking the bass
against a hard
surface and
covering and
uncovering the
upper ends of the
tube
 PATTETEG
❑ Leg
xylophone
❑ A split
bamboo
placed on the
lap and struck
with a long
piece of
bamboo