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---- Balingbing, also known as the bamboo buzzer is a percussion instrument (idiophone) it is made out of bamboo and is common  in numerous indigenous tribes in north luzon in the Philippines.

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---- Ethnolinguistic groups in the northern Philippines have different names for balingbing. Itneg calls it "Bungkaka", "avakko" for Bontok, "balimbing" for Kalinga. The Itneg, Tinggian and Kankanaey groups also call it "bilbil". This is “Pahinghing” for Isneg, “pakkung” for Ibaloy, and “ubbeng” for Kalinga

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A group of women plays the balingbing

Photograph copyright: F. de Jager

Courtesy Philippine Council for Living Traditions

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---- Usually played by at least seven individuals, each with one buzzer. Each player creates their own rythmic pattern, which all interlock ('interlocking'). While dancing in an open environment, players can create extended rows (such as a central meadow).

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---- The instrument is constructed from a length of buho (bamboo) with a node at the bottom end. The upper half is shaped such that there are two tongues facing each other, while the bottom end acts as a resonator chamber

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---- The player holds the lower end of the tube with one hand and strikes the upper part against the wrist of the other arm. A split running down the center of thetube causes a distinctive buzzing sound. The tone quality may be altered by opening and closing the finger hole for the thumb.

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---- The instrument Balingbing is played because people believed that it drives away evil spirits when walking along lonely in mountain trails

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This is how Balingbing produces a sound.

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