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Sape

Most popular instrument found in Borneo is the sape, a delicate four-stringed lute carved from the trunk of a tree and found among the Kenyah, Kayan, Kelabit, Penan and other upland Orang Ulu groups of Sarawak. Its Sabahian counterpart is the long-necked sundatang lute of the Kadazan Dusun and Lotud Dusun peoples.

The sape is one of the string instruments from the lute family, which has a short neck.It is made from soft wood, usually the meranti's. The sape has quite an elongated body which is hollowed out and functions as a resonator. The shape of the body looks like a sampan and is often called 'the boat lute' in the west.

The sape is a traditional lute of many of the Orang Ulu or "upriver people", who live in the longhouses that line the rivers of Central Borneo. Sapes are carved from a single bole of wood; many modern instruments reach over a metre in length.  It is famous among the Kayan and Kenyah tribes of East Malaysia. It is used in entertainment and to accompany dances such as 'Datun Julud and 'Ngajat' (one of the warrior dances associated with headhunting according to legend). Originally , sape strings were made from the Sago tree but now these have been replaced by nylon strings.


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Silingut or Turali

The selengut is a nose flute used by the indigeneous peoples of Sarawak as well known as turali in sabah. It is used to play music for individual entertainment, but the use of the nose breath attaches a special "magical" and religious significance to it.



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Kulintang or Kulintangan

Kulintang is a modern term for an ancient instrumental form of music composed on a row of small, horizontally-laid gongs that function melodically, accompanied by larger, suspended gongs and drums. As part of the larger gong-chime culture of Southeast Asia, kulintang music ensembles have been playing for many centuries in regions of the Eastern Malay Archipelago — the Southern Philippines, Eastern Indonesia, Eastern Malaysia, Brunei and Timor. (source from Wikipedia)


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  Sompoton

Sompoton is a traditional Kadazan music instruments for the Dusun tribes in Sabah. Traditionally it was from Kampung Tikolod, Tambunan. It is now prevalent among Dusuns and Muruts. It is made of a double raft of eight bamboo pipes inserted into a gourd. Inside the gourd, seven of the pipes have small polod palm lamellae or sodi inserted into their sides and kept in place by beeswax or sopinit.

The eighth soundless pipe is stopped up with sopinit. The player blows and sucks air through the gourd mouth-piece to activate the sodi. The musical sound produced can be likened to a cross between the sounds from a conventional mouth organ and a bagpipe, minus the latter's shrillness. While playing a sompoton, the player covers and uncovers the ends of three of the four shortest pipes with three fingers of his right hand and three small openings cut in the base of the front shortest pipe and front and back pipes of the longer raft with fingers of the left hand.

The sompoton can be played as a solo instrument for personal entertainment or in groups to accompany dancing. It is popular among the Dusun/Kadazan


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Bungkau

It’s a jew’s harp made from the skin palmetto, known as polod by Kadazan-dusun in sabah. The bungkau is carved from polod palm stem, and it is either shaved or peeled to obtain a two toned design. Often bungkau are fine tuned with a piece of insect wax. Many bungkau have a bamboo tube as a container. To carve nature, it requires a delicate and skilled hand. This device is usually found in areas Dusun tribes.


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Tongkungon or Togunggak

Known as tagunggak amongst the Murut, togunggak amongst lhe Dusun/Kadazan or 'togunggu' in Penampang, Sabah. These struck bamboo idiophones are played in groups to accompany dancing or processions at festive occasions. One set comprises from six (togunggu') to thirty (tagunggak) pieces, depending on the ethnic group. The music resembles that of the set of gongs of the particular group, with each idiophone tuned according to the corresponding gong part it plays.


Though it is mainly played solo and for personal entertainment, its music can accompany dance in the absence of gong ensembles.



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  Sundatang

Sundatang a musical instrument of kordofon made from bamboo, used by the Murut and Kadazan communities in Sabah. It is made of either 4 or 8 strings. These strings are drawn off from the bamboo tube itself, without cutting it. The strings are then tightened with the help of a trestle from a piece of small wood, which serves as a bridge. One long hole is made as the echo hole, on the surface of the zither. The strings are plucked using the thumb, to produce a rhythmic melody.



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Gabang

Gabang a musical instrument  version of the Western Xylophone, originated from Southern Philippines and usually found in areas Bajau tribes in Sabah.

It is a xylophone with more or less 12 bamboo keys separated by nails. The resonating case is decorated with tribal designs. This bamboo instrument is played by striking the keys with a beater made of wood and rubber. The amazing thing about gabbang is, it could somehow sound like a lyre or xylophone even the keys are made of bamboo

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