View source for Gabbang

{{Short description|Philippine bamboo xylophone}}
{{Distinguish|Gambang (instrument)}}{{more footnotes|date=November 2012}}
{{Infobox instrument
|name= Gabbang
|names= bamboo xylophone, <br>agung gabbang ([[Yakan people|Yakan]]), <br>gambang ([[Samal people|Samal]]), <br>gabbang ([[Tausūg people|Tausug]], [[Palawan]])
|image= Philippine Gabbang.jpg
|image_capt= Gabbang owned by [[Kontra Gapi]]
|background= idiophone
|hornbostel_sachs=111.212<ref>[[List of aerophones by Hornbostel–Sachs number]]</ref>
}}
The '''gabbang''', also known as '''bamboo xylophone''', is a [[musical instrument]] made of [[bamboo]] widely used in southern [[Philippines]]. Among the [[Tausūg people|Tausug]]s and [[Sama-Bajau|Sama]]s, it is commonly played to accompany songs and dances as a solo instrument or accompanied by the [[violin|biola]].<ref name="Routledge1">{{Cite book |last=Miller |first=Terry E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fh03DwAAQBAJ&q=gabbang+instrument&pg=PT1670 |title=The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Southeast Asia |last2=Williams |first2=Sean |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-54420-7 |location=New York, NY |language=en |orig-date=First published 1998}}</ref>
==Physical features==
A gabbang consists of a set of trapezoidal bamboo bars of increasing length resting on a resonator.<ref name="Routledge1" /> The number of bars varies with the group that made them: Among [[Yakan people|Yakan]]s, the number ranges from three to nine bamboo bars, but the common ''agung gabbang'' has five; among [[Tausūg people|Tausug]]s, the number ranges from 14 to 22 bamboo bars, but the common ''gabbang'' has 12; and in [[Palawan]], the common ''gabbang'' has five.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Dioquinio |first=Corazon |date=2008 |title=Philippine Bamboo Instruments |url=http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/humanitiesdiliman/article/view/1484 |journal=Humanities Diliman |language=en |volume=5 |issue=1&2 |page=107}}</ref>
==Playing techniques==
A bamboo xylophone is played by direct striking using a wooden [[mallet]]. The gabbang is played by a pair of beaters while another taps a rhythmic pattern on the side of the box.<ref>{{Cite web |last=De Leon |first=Felipe M. |title=Yakan Sonic Textures: A Heritage of Musical Instruments |url=https://ichcourier.ichcap.org/article/yakan-sonic-textures-a-heritage-of-musical-instruments/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190806142522/https://ichcourier.ichcap.org/article/yakan-sonic-textures-a-heritage-of-musical-instruments/ |archive-date=2019-08-06 |access-date=6 August 2019 |website=ICH Courier Online |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Routledge1" />
==See also==
* [[Bungkaka]]
* [[Diwas]]
* [[Kolitong]]
* [[Paldong]]
* [[Takumbo]]
==References==
{{reflist}}
[[Category:Philippine musical instruments]]
[[Category:Bamboo musical instruments]]
[[Category:Idiophones struck directly]]