Also called tagutok (
Maranao
The Maranao people (Maranao: mәranaw Filipino: ''Maranaw''), also spelled Meranao, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is the term used by the Philippine government to refer to the southern indigenous people who are the "people of the lake", a predomi ...
),
bantula or tagungtung (
Bukidnon
Bukidnon(), officially the Province of Bukidnon ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Bukidnon; fil, Lalawigan ng Bukidnon; hil, Kapuroan sang Bukidnon; Binukid and Higaonon: ''Probinsya ta Bukidnon''), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the ...
) and kuratung (
Banuwaen).
The kagul is a type of
Philippine
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bamboo scraper gong/
slit drum
A slit drum or slit gong is a hollow percussion instrument. In spite of the name, it is not a true drum but an idiophone, usually carved or constructed from bamboo or wood into a box with one or more slits in the top. Most slit drums have one slit ...
of the Maguindanaon and Visayans with a jagged edge on one side, played with two beaters, one scraping the jagged edge and the other one making a beat. The
Maguindanaon and the
Banuwaen use it in the rice paddies to guard against voracious birds, using the sound it produces to scare them away.
The Maguindanaon and the
Bukidnon
Bukidnon(), officially the Province of Bukidnon ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Bukidnon; fil, Lalawigan ng Bukidnon; hil, Kapuroan sang Bukidnon; Binukid and Higaonon: ''Probinsya ta Bukidnon''), is a landlocked province in the Philippines located in the ...
also used to use it for simple dance rhythms during social occasions. The rhythms were usually simplistic in nature, consisting of one rhythmic pattern sometimes combined with another.
[ Use of the kagul in the former way is no longer practiced.][
]
See also
* Slim (musical instrument)
References
External links
Informational websites and online textbooks
Pictures of kagul and its other derivatives
Photograph of a Bantula
– Close-up pictures of a bantula - by Hans Brandeis.
Photograph of a Tagungtung
- A tagungtung used as accompaniment - by Hans Brandeis.
Photograph of a Tagungtung
- A tagungtung being played - by Hans Brandeis.
– Close-up pictures of a tagutok - by Fekke de Jagar.
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Culture in Maguindanao del Norte
Culture in Maguindanao del Sur
Culture of Bukidnon
Scraped idiophones
Slit drums
Philippine folk instruments
Philippine musical instruments