Music - Lesson 3

• Bamboo is known for its tall hollow stems and considered one of the fastest growing plants around the world.
• A Serongagandi is an embellished guitar-like instrument which is made of bamboo tube closed by a node at both ends. It has 2 strings.
• A chordophone is any musical instrument which makes sound by way of a vibrating string.
• The Togo or Tangkel is a musical instrument of Maguindanao, it is from bamboo tubes closed on both ends by nodes. It has 5 to 11 strings.
• Aerophones are musical instruments which produce sound primarily by causing a body of air to vibrate without the use of strings.
• The Palendag is a lip-valley flute, it is considered as the toughest of the three bamboo flutes.
• The Suling is the smallest bamboo flute of the Maguindanaon and the only one classified as a ring-flute.
• An idiophone is any musical instrument which creates sounds primarily by way of the instrument's vibrating without the use of strings.

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• The kulintang is a set of 8 knobbed gongs in graduated sizes from largest to smallest mounted in a wooden frame, about a meter long.
• The Kulintang is popular in Sulu.
• The Gabbang is similar to a xylophone. It is made of a wooden box with one end wider than the other.
• The Sulu Sea, Philippine Sea, Celebes Sea, and Mindanao Sea surround the island Mindanao.