Sho Shakuhachi

JAPAN JAPAN
Aerophone/Wind Aerophone/Wind
It is a mouth organ that is It is a bamboo flute with four
made from bamboo or wood. holes.

Fu’ye Hichiriki
JAPAN JAPAN
Aerophone/Wind Aerophone/Wind
It is a sophisticated side- It is an instrument similar to an
blown flute with seven finger oboe.
holes.
 Koto Shamisen
JAPAN JAPAN
Chordophone/String Chordophone/String
It is a famous Japanese zither, It is a flat-backed lute that has
with 13 silk strings, that is laid skin covered bellies and three
horizontally on the floor. strings.

Biwa Kakko
JAPAN JAPAN
Chordophone/String Membranophone/Percussion
It is a Japanese version of the It is a Gagaku instrument that is
Pi’pa that has four strings made up of deer skin.
with frets on the belly and
slim lateral tuning pegs.
 Da-daiko Kotsuzumi
JAPAN JAPAN
Membranophone/Percussion Membranophone/Percussion
It is an hourglass-shaped
It is a huge instrument used in Noh and
Gagaku drum Kabuki performances.
suspended on
an artistic
frame and is
struck with
heavy
lacquered
beaters.

Shoko Hsiao
JAPAN CHINA
Idiophone/Percussion Aerophone/Wind
It is an end blown flute with five
It is a gong finger holes, a reverse thumb
instrument hole and two resonating holes
used by a at the lower end.
performance
of Gagaku-
music.
 Sona Sheng
CHINA CHINA
Aerophone/Wind Aerophone/Wind
It is a mouth
It is a shawn organ with 17
like instrument bamboo pipes
with wooden of five different
stern with lengths.
seven finger
holes and
reverse thumb
hole.

Ch’in P’ipa
CHINA CHINA
Chordophone/String Chordophone/String
It is a seven-stringed long It is a four-stringed loquat-
zither. shaped lute.
Yueh’-Ch’in Erh-hu
CHINA CHINA
Chordophone/String Chordophone/String
It is a four-stringed moon It is a two-stringed fiddle played
shaped lute used to with a bowstring.
accompany songs used in
Peking Opera.

San-hsein Lo
CHINA CHINA
Chordophone/String Idiophone
It is a three-stringed long These are circular gongs struck
necked lute. with a padded wooden mallet.
 Mu-yu Temple Clapper
CHINA
CHINA Idiophone
Idiophone It is used in Confucian rituals,
It is a hardwood slit-drum made of five pieces of redwood.
called “wooden fish.”

Pang-ku Tang-ku
CHINA CHINA
Membranophone/Percussion Membranophone/Percussion
It is a two single-headed drum
made of wedges of wood held It is a double-
together with a brass hoop. headed barrel-
shaped drum
with cowskin
heads
suspended by
four rings from
a curved
frame.
 Chan-ku Tabla
CHINA INDIA
Membranophone/Percussion Membranophone/Percussion
(Hindustani) is the name for a pair
It is a three of drums. The larger drum called
double- the bhaya, has a metal body while
the smaller one, the tabla has a
headed drum
wooden body.
commonly
used in
processions.

Mridangam Bansuri
INDIA INDIA
Membranophone/Percussion Aerophone/Wind
(Karnatak) is a two headed drum. It is a side blown cane flute is a
It is laid across the lap of the melodic instrument of the
performer. Hindustani.
 Shehnai Nagasvara/m
INDIA INDIA
Aerophone/Wind Aerophone/Wind
It is an oboe type instrument. It is a large double-reed oboe type
instrument of the South.

Tambura Sitar
INDIA INDIA
Chordophone/String Chordophone/String
It is an unfretted lute, used as a It is the most popular instrument in
drone; used by both South and Northern India; in addition to four
North. strings and three drones, the sitar
may have as many as 13 strings.
 Veena
INDIA
Chordophone/String
It is an instrument of the South;
with four melody strings and
three drone strings.
Saron
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It plays the skeletal part of the
gamelan composition, which
consists of metal bars placed on top
of box resonator. A wooden mallet
is used to strike the bars.
Sarangi
INDIA
Chordophone/String
It is a Hindustani bowed fiddle
melodic instrument.
Rebab
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It is similar to a mandolin. It has
two strings played with an arc.
 Celempung
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It has twenty-six strings, one
pair of which is set to one
tone. This way, only tones are
heard.
Gender
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It is made up of thin bronze plates
suspended over resonating
tubes. It has loud and brilliant
tones.
Suling
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It is a bamboo flute.
Bonang
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It is a set of bronze metal kettles
which plays the melodic and
rhythmic variations of a
composition. Two long sticks are
used to strike the gongs.
Gong Ageng Gambang
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It is the most sacred ad the most
honored instrument of the
Gamelan. It is played with a soft,
padded wooden stick to mark
large musical phrases.
Kempul
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It is a small gong that plays in
syncopation with the kenong. It
punctuates short musical
phrases.
INDONESIA
Gamelan Instrument
It is a wooden xylophone. It doubles
or anticipates principal melody.
P’iri
KOREA
Aerophone/Woodwind
It is a cylindrical bamboo similar to
an oboe blown through a double
reed multipiece.
 Tanso
KOREA
Aerophone/Woodwind
It is a small notched vertical
bamboo flute with five
fingerholes.
Kayagum
KOREA
Chordophone/String
It is a twelve-stringed zither
similar to the Koto of Japan and
Ch’in of China. It is supported by
twelve movable bridges.
Chottdae
KOREA
Aerophone/Woodwind
It is a long flute made of bamboo
with six holes.
Komungo
KOREA
Chordophone/String
It is a six-stringed zither that plays
as the principal instrument for a
small group of players. It is
regarded for expressing the noble
spirit of a learned man.
 Haegum Kwaenggwari
KOREA
Chordophone/String
It is a two-stringed fiddle made of
bamboo that is plucked. It is used
for dance performances.
Pak
KOREA
Idiophone/Percussion
It is a clapper-shaped like a
folded fan. It consists of six
pieces of wood loosely held
together at the upper end by
chord made from deer skin.
KOREA
Idiophone/Percussion
It is the smallest gong struck
with a wooden mallet.
Ching
KOREA
Idiophone/Percussion
It is a huge gong played with a
padded mallet. This is used in
military and Sharman music.
 Pinai Ranat-ek
THAILAND THAILAND
Pi Phat: Woodwind Pi Phat: Xylophone

Khong-Wong Ching
THAILAND THAILAND
Pi Phat: Gong Pi Phat: Cymbal
 Taphon Chakee
THAILAND THAILAND
Pi Phat: Kind on drum Khruang Saay and Mahori:
String - Zither

Sao-Saam-Saay Sao Duang

THAILAND
Khruang Saay and Mahori: THAILAND
String - Fiddle Khruang Saay and Mahori:
String - Fiddle
 Klu-Piang Maracas
THAILAND LATIN AMERICA
Mahori: Flute Percussion
These were created and first used
by the native Indians of Puerto Rico.
A pair of these is used to create the
unique sound of common in Latin
American and Puerto Rican music.

Guiro Palitos
LATIN AMERICA LATIN AMERICA
Percussion Percussion
It is a notch hollowed out gourd, It is a pair of sticks that are banged
which was adapted from a pre- together to provide percussion
Columbian instrument. rhythm.
 Conga Bongos
LATIN AMERICA LATIN AMERICA
Membranophone Percussion
It is drum that was adapted from Bongos are integral part of Latin
Africa where it began as a solid, percussion, particularly as a solo
hollowed out log with a nailed-on instrument.
skin. It looks various shapes and
sizes to vary its sound.

Palendag Tongali
PHILIPPINES: North PHILIPPINES: North
Aerophone/Woodwind Aerophone/Woodwind
Bulungudyong Kaleleng
PHILIPPINES: North
PHILIPPINES Aerophone/Woodwind
Aerophone/Woodwind

It is a vertical flute
originated in Pinatubo
Ayta.

Tumpong Bansik
PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINES
Aerophone/Woodwind Aerophone/Woodwind
It is a bamboo flute. It is a bamboo flute with three holes
of the Negrito people in Zambales.
Saggeypo Diwdiwas
PHILIPPINES: North PHILIPPINES: North
Aerophone/Woodwind Aerophone/Woodwind

Tambuli Tulali
PHILIPPINES: North PHILIPPINES
Aerophone/Woodwind Aerophone/Woodwind
It is a flute with 6 holes.
 Paldong Suling
PHILIPPINES: South PHILIPPINES: South
Aerophone/Woodwind Aerophone/Woodwind

Saunay Plawta
PHILIPPINES: South PHILIPPINES: South
Aerophone/Woodwind Aerophone/Woodwind
 Kolitong
PHILIPPINES: North
Chordophone/String
Kudyapi
PHILIPPINES: South
Chordophone/String
It is a two-stringed boat lute from
Mindanao.
Gitgit
PHILIPPINES: North
Chordophone/String
Kudlong
PHILIPPINES: South
Chordophone/String
Bamboo violin
PHILIPPINES
Chordophone/String
It is a three-stringed violin of the
Aeta People.

Faglong Budlong
PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINES
Chordophone/String Chordophone/String
It is a two-stringed, lute-like It is a bamboo zither.
instrument of the B’laan, made in
1997.
 Pas-ing Bandurria
PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINES
Chordophone/String Chordophone/String: Lute

It is a two- It is part of
stringed Rondalya
bamboo with ensemble, it
a hole in the has a
middle from shorter neck
Apayao and 14
people. strings
compared to
its Spanish
ancestor.

Laud Octavina
PHILIPPINES PHILIPPINES
Chordophone/String: Lute Chordophone/String: Lute

It is similar to It is part of a
the Bandurria, Rondalya
it is ultimately ensemble,
of Spanish and It is of
origin. It is ultimately
also part of a Spanish
Rondalya origin.
ensemble.
 Agung
PHILIPPINES: South
Idiophone: Tuned Gong
It is a large gong suspended from
an ornate frame.
Kulintang
PHILIPPINES: South
Idiophone: Tuned Gong
It is a set of eight tuned gongs
placed horizontally in an ornate
frame, tuned pentatonically.
Gandingan
PHILIPPINES: South
Idiophone: Tuned Gong
It is a set of four large hanging
knobbed gongs.
Gabbang
PHILIPPINES: South
Idiophone: Xylophone
It is a bamboo blades on a frame.
 Luntang Kulintang a
PHILIPPINES
Xylophone
tiniok/Saronay
These are wooden beams PHILIPPINES
hanging from a frame. Metallophone
It is a set of eight, tuned knobbed
metal plates strung on a wooden
frame.

Babendil
PHILIPPINES: South
Idiophone: Metallophone
It is a small gong.
 Dabakan Libbit
PHILIPPINES: South PHILIPPINES: North
Membranophone Membranophone
It is a goblet drum. It is a conical drum of Ifugao.

Gandang Kimbal
PHILIPPINES: Maranao PHILIPPINES: North
Membranophone Membranophone
It is a double-headed barrel drum.
 Sulibao Kubing/Ulibaw
PHILIPPINES: North PHILIPPINES: South
Membranophone Idiophone
It is a jaw’s harp in Maranao.
It is a conical drum of Ibaloy.

Gangsa Tagutok
PHILIPPINES: North PHILIPPINES: South
Idiophone Idiophone
Bungkaka Pattung
PHILIPPINES: North PHILIPPINES: North
Idiophone Idiophone