EXHIBIT B: KALINGA CULTURE - Alonzo Saclag's Culture

On this Exhibit, you will find information about the Kalinga Culture and get to know variety of instruments that they use.

KALINGA CULTURE

The group of kalinga has a rich cultural traditions and expressions of music, dance, and artisan work. Kalinga people cleave to their belief that life is sacred and should be protected and cared.

These cultural values of the Kalinga people are so significant and can dictate the way of life of the people. They are paniyaw, ngilin and bain. Kalinga people offer rituals thru their traditional music, and dance.

INSTRUMENTS

Gangsa (Kalingagong)

Gangsa is a single hand-held smooth-surface gong with a narrow rim. A set of gansa, which played one gong per musician. For the Kalinga people in the Cordillera region of Luzon Island, the Gangsa played in two ways. One is called Toppaya, and the other one is called Pattung.

Toppaya style played on the surface of the Gangsa in a sitting position with a single Gangsa resting on the lap of each musician. While in the “Puttung “ style, a Gangsa is suspended from the musician’s left hand and played with a padded stick held in the musician’s right hand. In this style, the players are standing, or they keep in step with the dancers while bending forward slightly

Tongali or Kalelang (Nose flute)

Tongali is a wind instrument with a long and narrow internal diameter. It is possible to play different harmonics through overblowing—even with the weak airflow from one nostril.

Thus, this nose flute can play notes in a range of two and a half octaves. Finger holes in the side of the bamboo tube change the operating length, giving various scales. Players plug the other nostril to increase the force of their breath through the flute.

Bungkaka or bilbili

A bungkaka, also known as the Bamboo Buzzer, is a percussion instrument (idiophone) made out of bamboo. Bungkaka is a length of bamboo with two projecting tongues with a hole at the end of the body.

Kalinga culture refers to it as bungkaka or bilbil, depending on the village. Women play this instrument, and people believe that it drives away evil spirits when walking along lonely mountain trails.