Kulintang
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Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums.
A kulintang ensemble of the Maranao people with elaborate okir carvings in the Museum of the Filipino People
A group of men from the Ngada tribe with drums and gongs (Kulintang) in Ngada, Flores, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). in 1913
A Lumad kulintang ensemble from Bukidnon with the traditional carvings
Maranao agong
Gandingan
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The gandingan is a Philippine set of four large, hanging gongs used by the Maguindanao as part of their kulintang ensemble. When integrated into the ensemble, it functions as a secondary melodic instr
One of the brass gongs of the gandingan
Gandingan gongs placed one inside the other
Student demonstrating the proper way to use the gandingan