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| | CWF - Danongan Kalanduyan |
 | | While gongs are found throughout the Philippine tribal cultures, the kulintang, thought to have been brought from China to the Philippines in the Third Century AD, is looked to as the “deepest” of the islands’ performing arts traditions. |
 | | Basically a melody instrument, the kulintang is played by a single performer as a solo instrument or as part of an ensemble. |
 | | At the age of seven, he began to study the other instruments—the kulintang, the dabakan goblet-shaped drum, the small babandir “timekeeper” gong, and the gandingan four-gong set—from his grandmother, father, uncles, and cousins. |
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