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GANGSA
GANGSA
Gangsa is a single hand-held smooth-surfaced gong with a narrow rim. A set of gangsa, which is played one gong per musician, consists of gangsa tuned to different notes, depending on regional or local cultural preferences. The number of gangsa in a set varies with availability, and depends on the tradition of a particular ethnic group of the Luzon Cordillera
SOLIBAO
SOLIBAO
Solibao is a hallow wooden Igorot drum topped with pig skin or lizard skin this is played by striking the drum head using the palm of the hand. I captured this in the museum of Baguio City located in the corner of Governer pack road.
These long, slender barreled wooden drums - played with the hands and beaten next to gongs and other musical instruments, like stones, sticks like putting it is a percussion yoke bar made from a tapered piece of wood and struck with a stick. And gangsa or gongs it single handed, smooth-surfaced gong with a narrow rim, provided the rhythmic musical accompaniment for Igorot cultural dances.
KALALENG
KALALENG
Kalaleng or Tongali (nose flute) Because the kalaleng is long and has a narrow internal diameter, it is possible to play different harmonics through overblowing—even with the rather weak airflow from one nostril. Thus, this nose flute can play notes in a range of two and a half octaves. Finger holes in the side of the bamboo tube change the operating length, giving various scales. Players plug the other nostril to increase the force of their breath through the flute
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