MAPEH 7

1. MUSICAL INSTRUMENT IN
MINDANAO

2. KUDYAPI
- is a guitar with two strings. It is about 1
1/2 m long and made of wood. It has a
stick to support in its lower end and is
played in the same position as cello. It is
common among Tirurays of Cotabato.

3. KARAGA
- is a guitar made up of bamboo where
the strings are slit from the bamboo itself.
The bamboo is split and tied back in both
ends, leaving a slit as resonator. The guitar
has strings all around it. This is popular in
Eastern Mindanao.

4. SAHUNAY
- is a bamboo flute, leaving six holes
for the fingers and trumpet made of
coconut leaf. It is about 50 cm long
and 3 cm in diameter. This is a
bamboo flute of the Tausugs in Sulu.

5. KULINTANG
- is a set of eight knobbed gongs in
graduated sizes from largest to smallest
mounted in a wooden frame, about a meter
long. Muslim carvings decorated the frame.
The kulintang is played by striking the gongs
with two pieces of wood, about 12 inches
long while the player squats on the floor. The
instruments is popular in Sulu.

7. BUNKAKA OR BILBIL
- is a bamboo musical instruments used
by the Tinguians. It is a two-proged
bamboo struck against the palm of one
hand.

8. GANDINGAN
- is a set of four graduated gongs, with thin
rims and lower central knobs. They hang in
pairs with the knobs of the lower pitched
gongs facing each other. The same with the
two higher pitched gongs. The pair of lower
pitched gongs is positioned on the player's
left side while the pair of the higher pitched
gongs is on the right. The player usually a
woman who stands between the two pair of
gongs. Her body touches slightly the gong
in the middle to prevent from swinging. She
uses two padded mallets (one mallet for
each air) to strike the gong's knobs.

9. BABENDIL
- is small gong with thin rims and low
central knobs. It is struck with thin bamboo
sticks to produce a metallic sound.

10. DABAKAN
- is a goblet -shaped drum, which has a
single head covered with goat, lizard or
snake skin. It is struck with two thin
bamboo sticks about 18 inches in length.