The ''kulintang a tiniok'' is a type of

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metallophone A metallophone is any musical instrument in which the sound-producing body is a piece of metal (other than a metal string), such as tuned metal bars, tubes, rods, bowls, or plates. Most frequently the metal body is struck to produce sound, usual ...

with eight tuned knobbed metal plates strung together via string a top a wooden antangan (rack). ''Kulintang a tiniok'' is a

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n term meaning "kulintang with string," but they also could call them ''kulintang a putao'', meaning "kulintang of metal." The

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refer to this instrument as a ''sarunay'' (or ''salunay'', ''salonay'', ''saronay'', ''saronai'' or ''sarunai''), terminology which has become popular for this instrument in North America. This is considered a relatively recent instrument and surprisingly many of them are only made of tin-can. Like the '' kulintang a kayo'', it is used only for self-entertainment purpose in the home, to train beginners on new songs before using the

kulintang 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 ...

and in America, master artists have been training students en masse on these instruments.

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