It is composed of four hanging slim bossed gongs arranged from low to high pitch starting from the player’s left hand. Each pair of gongs are hanged facing each other. *
Agung
Babandir
Dabakan
Gandingan
Agung
Babandir
Dabakan
Gandingan
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gandingan
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The gandingan is a Philippine set of four large, hanging gongs used by the Maguindanao as part of their kulintang ensemble. When integrated into the ensemble, it functions as a secondary melodic instrument after the main melodic instrument, the kulintang. When played solo, the gandingan allows fellow Maguindanao to communicate with each other, allowing them to send messages or warnings via long distances. This ability to imitate tones of the Maguindanao language using this instrument has given the gandingan connotation: the “talking gongs.”[2]