CCP Collection of Traditional Asian Musical Instruments (Pasay City)

CCP Collection of Traditional Asian Musical Instruments

CCP Collection of Traditional Asian Musical Instruments

The CCP Collection of Traditional Asian Musical Instruments, another important permanent exhibit at the Museo ng Kalinangan Pilipino, displays a collection of Philippine and Asian traditional musical (stringed, percussion, woodwind, etc.) instruments.  The Asian instruments were acquired by the CCP from 1969 to 1986 through donations by a number of Southeast Asian and East Asian countries.

Interior

Interior

Indonesia donated a gender barung (14 bronze bars suspended by a cord over sheet iron resonating tubes in a teakwood frame), a bonang barung (12 bronze pots in two rows of six located in square openings in rectangular teakwood), a gender panerus (14 bronze bars suspended by a cord over sheet iron resonating tubes in a teakwood frame), a saron panerus (known by its nickname Peking, it is the smallest saron in the Saron family), a gong ageng (Javanese meaning “large gong”), a  gambang (a xylophone-like musical instrument), a saron barungsaron demung and a slenthem (a Javanese metallophone which makes up part of a gamelan orchestra).

Bonang Barung

Bonang Barung

Gender Barung

Gender Barung

The Chinese government donated a gu zheng (a plucked zither with 18 or more strings and movable bridges), a chung hu (a medium- pitched fiddle), an er hu (a two-stringed bowed musical instrument), a ti hu (a two-stringed bowed vertical fiddle), a pan hu (a “piccolo” version of the er hu), a ching er hu, a yueh hu (a bowed string instrument) and a hua pen gu (a flower pot drum).
China Exhibit

China Exhibit

Yue qin (China)

Yue qin (China)

Thailand donated a khaw-ng wong lek (or khong wong lek, a gong circle with 18 tuned bossed gongs), a khaw ng mong, glaw-ng that (drum with two heads stretched tightly and fastened down with pegs or nails), a ta pho-n (barrel-shaped drums with 2 heads) and a khaw-ng wong yai (or khong wong yai, a  circle with gongs with 16 tuned bossed gongs in a rattan frame and is played with two beaters).
Khaw-ng Wong Yai

Khaw-ng Wong Yai

Ta Pho-n

Ta Pho-n

South Korea, the latest to donate, contributed  an ajaeng (a large bowed zither having 7 strings), a changgo (or janggu, an hourglass-shaped, waisted drum used in traditional music), a taegum (or daegeum, a transverse bamboo flute with a distinctive sound), a komun’go (or geomungo, a traditional stringed musical instrument of the family of zither instruments with both bridges and frets), a hyang-p’iri (a cylindrical, double reed oboe), a tanso (or danso, a notched, end blown vertical bamboo flute), a chi, a kayagun (or gayageum, a traditional zither-like stringed instrument), a hun (a globular flute), a sogum (or sogeum, a small bamboo transverse flute) and a tungso (a comparatively long notched bamboo flute).

South Korean Exhibit

South Korean Exhibit

From Japan came the shakuhachi (a Japanese end-blown flute) and a biwa (a Japanese short-necked fretted lute, often used in narrative storytelling) while India brought in a tabla (a 2-piece percussion instrument), flutes and a  tavil (or thavil, a Southern Indian drum).

Japanese Exhibit

Japanese Exhibit

The Philippine musical instruments were donated by the late Dr. Lucrecia R. Kasilag, a National Artist for Music and a musical instrument collector for over 50 years.  She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.

Philippine Exhibit

Philippine Exhibit

The instruments on display include a kudyapi (or kutiyapi, a two-stringed, fretted boat-lute), a gangsa (a single hand-held smooth-surfaced gong with a narrow rim), an octavina (a guitar-shaped Filipino instrument with a tuning similar to the laud ), a laúd (a plectrum-plucked chordophone), a bandurria (a steel-stringed, 12-stringed instrument), a bajo de unas (bass guitar), a bungkaka (a bamboo buzzer), a kubing (a type of jaw harp made from bamboo), a gabbang (a bamboo xylophone widely used in the southern Philippines), and the all too familiar guitar.
Banduria, Laud and Octavina

Banduria, Laud and Octavina

CCP Museo ng Kalinangang Pilipino: 4/F, Cultural Center of the Philippines Main Bldg., CCP Complex, Pasay City. Tel (Visual Arts & Museum Division): (632) 832- 3702, (632) 832-5094 and (632) 832-1125 local 1504,1505 and 1508.  Open Tuesdays to Sundays, 10 AM to 6 PM. Admission: PhP40 for adults and PhP30 for students and children. If there are performances at the Main Theater, exhibit hours are extended up to 10 PM. Mobile number: (0920) 470-0690.  E-mail: ccp.exhibits@gmail.com.

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