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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Firemandk, post: 4470149, member: 7258&quot;]<font size="6"><b>Kutiyapi from the Philippines ??? Moro stringed instrument ......</b></font></p><p><font size="6"><br /></font></p><p><font size="6"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiyapi" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutiyapi" rel="nofollow">Kutiyapi - Wikipedia</a></b></font></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://m.facebook.com/nationalmuseumofthephilippines/photos/as-we-continue-to-commemorate-the-linggo-ng-musikang-pilipino-the-nationalmuseum/3469056219785338/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://m.facebook.com/nationalmuseumofthephilippines/photos/as-we-continue-to-commemorate-the-linggo-ng-musikang-pilipino-the-nationalmuseum/3469056219785338/" rel="nofollow">National Museum of the Philippines - As we continue to commemorate the Linggo ng Musikang Pilipino, the #NationalMuseumPH shares another musical instrument from our National Ethnographic Collection. Yesterday, we featured the different gongs in the country and today, we will be sharing our collection of boat lutes. According to ethnomusicologist Hans Brandeis, there are at least 23 different types of Philippine boat lutes, which can be found among at least 36 different ethnolinguistic groups. A boat lute (called kutiyapi/kudyapi/kutyapi among the Maranao, Maguindanao, Higaonon, Bukidnon and Arumanen Manobo, kudjapi among the Alangan Mangyan, kuglung among the Ata-Manobo and Bagobo, kudlung among the Mandaya, kuglung among the Blaan; hegelung among the Tboli; and kudlungan/kusiyapi among the Pala&#039;wan or Palawano) is a two-stringed musical instrument wherein one string is used for the melody and the other one produces the drone. It is usually carved out of one solid log of wood and vary in designs that in most cases, it is easy to determine from which ethnolinguistic group a specific lute came from making them important “cultural identifiers.” The symbolic meaning of the design is not pertaining to boats but rather to animals, namely crocodiles, monitor lizards, horses, roosters and herons as well as of the human body and to some parts of the royal houses like the panolong (house beam extensions). Before the Maranao started to carve their lutes into panolong designs, they first used the crocodile which symbolizes political and royal power and is deeply rooted into the Maranao mythology, darangen. Based on the different accounts, boat lutes had been around the country even before the Spanish occupation. They are still prominently used in Mindanao and Palawan and are usually played solo as a form of self-entertainment. The Alangan and Iraya Mangyan of Mindoro were also noted as boat lute players, but this tradition have become extinct in the early 1970s. Unlike traditional bamboo tube zithers which are exclusively played by women, boat lutes can be played by both men and women. There are different techniques in playing the lutes: in a sitting position, standing and dancing or while squatting on the floor. However, lute players like the Tboli play their hegelung in all kinds of strange positions like: holding them far away from their body, behind their back, on their neck, while dancing, spinning round and turning on their own axis. The kudyapi is played with a plectrum or pick, usually made out of rattan, bamboo or a piece of plastic cut from a cup or container, and tied to the index or middle finger of the player. Palawan (Palawano, Tagbanwa, Batak) and some Lumad groups (Agusan Manobo and Subanen) play with their bare fingers. Bukidnon Manobo elders believe that the people learned to play the kudyapi by listening to the spirits dwelling on the balete (Ficus stipulosa) tree, who play the kudyapi, pulala (bamboo flute), and dayuday/dayuray (violin made from coconut shell) at night. The strings of the kudyapi are made from bislig (vines), abaca, rattan and other plant fibers that are found in their surroundings. The frets that are positioned under the melody string are made out of clots of beeswax as its base in which strips and pieces of bamboo, coconut shell, fernwood or buffalo horn are inserted. Aside from being played for self-entertainment, the kudyapi is also used during courtship activities among the Lumad and the Bangsamoro groups. Along with the kubing (jaw harp or Jew’s harp), they are referred to by the Bangsamoro as “speaking” instruments. It is played in association with the entourage of the datu or sultan among the Maguindanao. Manlilikha ng Bayan Samaon Sulaiman from Maguidanao, a dedicated player of the kutyapi, have mastered the different forms and styles, such as the dinaladay (introduction), linapu (borrowed tunes), minuna (traditional), binalig (modern) among others. Masino Intaray, a Palawano musician and storyteller and conferered as Manlilikha ng Bayan is also a master of the kusyapi through the bagit, (facebook.com)</a></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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