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Identify the Indonesian instruments similar to
those of the Philippines.
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Give the characteristics of the instruments.
Traditional music of Indonesian tribes often uses percussion instruments,
especially gendang (drums) and gongs. This itself is a very similar trait if
one would observe the instruments used by the Filipinos before.
One of the few instruments used in Indonesia
that is largely similar to bamboo instruments of the Philippines is the angklung. Angklung is a bamboo musical
instrument native to Sundanese people of West Java. It is made out of bamboo
tubes attached to a bamboo frame. The tubes are carved so that they have a
distinctive resonant pitch when being vibrated. Each angklung only plays one
note.
Another similar instrument both country share
is the kolintang or Kulintang. It is a bronze and wooden percussion instrument
native to eastern Indonesia and also The Philippines. Kulintang belongs to the
larger unit/stratum of “knobbed gong-chime culture” prevalent in Southeast Asia.
It is considered one of the region’s three major gong ensembles, alongside the
gamelan of western Indonesia and piphat of Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos,
which use gongs and not wind or string instruments to carry the melodic part of
the ensemble. Like the other two, kulintang music is primarily orchestral with
several rhythmic parts orderly stacked one upon another.
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