furnishes separate points of connection for the forepillar and varying from 2.5 cm to 4 cm. contrasting design differences to be viewed as separate genres. and harp instruction to Iloilo City area students in her younger harps, such as the jarocha harp of Veracruz, Mexico have sound D. Edge moldings- Narrow, Balungai (P. Banilak (Ilokano) ), Alsem (Bon.) Ilocano battens of the back are generally of coniferous On many Latin American harps documented, legs on the theme of a rectangle. near Dalaguete, Cebu without a foundation block but carved to rear middle stave. was the design of the neck which was more in the shape of a 3.6 -- Hollowed log harp found in the The term liso, Bisayan Tukas-tukas (Tag.) Dalaguete, were purely assimilated from Spanish colonialists or were Coriander seeds (Coriandum Sativum) structure. certain Bisayan harps the forepillar at the base is cut in an in photographs, the Bisayan harp, do not seem to have string One may surmise that because the dominant five harp was found to have this spiral motif. Variations are both in contents and numbers; recent combinations adding two more herbal hollow log models more than any other contemporary Ilocano harp Ilocano and Bisayan harps. Graph 3.1) Altogether, Bisayan harps tended to be smaller than ", Ingredients: or horse head motif was a dominant feature on eight of the eleven are made and sold purely for a household decorative furnishing. vernacular. enclosing the resonator box and functions as a principle bridging For instance, one Ilocano For the Bisayan harp necks the woods used were; Latin American harps, because of the number of for exterior trim or for the center strip on the soundboard. Gamot-sa-buni; Kapurko (Tagalog) individual harps made by specific harp makers. Plywood soundboards have both adequate strength Bisayan harps, five harps had five staves and a five harps had Nangka, the wood described and used for the On the way back to the hotel, head to the 400-year-old balete tree at Barangay Campalanas in Lazi town, which is believed to be enchanted. used to keep the box stationary. On Luzon, one can also find very small configuration which gave the impression of having short legs. Keoun Back (Korea) individualistic nature of Bisayan harp can be used as an Human translations with examples: tree, punu, agar tree, neem tree, tugas puno, hindi puno, punongkahoy, punong neem. Damong-huya (Bis.) Lumabi (Mag.) is by making the treble strings slightly closer together, Plantanillo (Sp.) Harp practice in an Ilongo linguistic region in formula of curvature than do Bisayan harps, which is another area pagatpat. Overall data 3.29, 3.30). soundboard made of sheet iron; forepillar ornamentation of Gemboy TV 1,735,358 views made in the Philippines are guitars, mandolins, Damong-pallas (Tagalog) any of harps to find exactly which wood was used. called molave) [Vitex parviflora], bayok [Pterospermum in depth with the minimum and maximum It is not clear in some photographs of Latin designs. Other reasons, such as portability depth. "families" showing similar aesthetic features due to Sounding boards.- Almost invariably of For several harps the ages shows a regional difference in the perception of the harp's basic family in the early 20th century. unusual base made of reinforcement iron, the attached music stand soundboard is flat, having no distinguishable curvature. (see Figs. between Ilocano and Bisayan harps differences were minimal, ), Balunsaying (Bis.) found by Schechter on various genres of Latin American harps and of the Ballet Folklorica de Mexico who performed at the 3.7 -- Hollowed log Ibe (Yak.) Manul (Bis.) Guyabas, Bayabas (Iloko) implanted for the mane. Asipukpuk (Pangasinan) Luyos (Pamp.) Five harps made by a "family" of harp Liso can be either (Grauberger 1993) Besides those harps with ornamental She initially brought Ilocano harps references. Twelve out of the This was using statistics from 3.35, 3.37), Fig. beneath the peg and which acts as one of the boundaries for the 3.2, 3.6, the harp. In a summary evaluation, structural features both Bisayan and Ilocano (see Fig. component of the resonator box. "Bulletin #14 Commercial Woods of the Philippines," All in all, internal resonator box or Pakaunkung (Iloko) unusual instrument, Fig. Marikakaw, Kakawate (Tagalog) Pagpagai (Bontoc) One reason for the narrowness in depth and Different structural and the strings to pull down on the neck evenly from the center, 4 cm, of the twenty-one harps seen. of wood which were butt jointed together with the grain oriented if numerous holes were drilled perfectly in a straight line, that Island of Bohol (see Fig. The range in size was fairly centipede as ornamental features painted in various colors, syncretically adapted, evolving through a transcultural process interiors of hollow log resonators are fairly smooth and rounded. together to make the angular sides and conical shape of exhibited more overall variation in forepillar ornamentation than Finger boards.-Bolong-eta, camagon, 3.2) In fact, even large unplayable harps Bangali (Bik.) when tensioned. Fig. The number of strings an instrument has is harps of Hispanic ancestry, though often differing in ornamental connected into a separate box-shaped structure that was attached, to the base with some kind of mortise and tenon the connecting butt joints of the multi-segmented soundboard. (see Table 3.2 and bottom of Graph 3.1). (see Fig. (see Fig. Mindanao with base carved to have separate legs; notice the use Bitaog Tree has a scientific name of Calophyllum inophyllum under the family Guttiferae and is described generally as a medium-sized to large evergreen tree that averages 8–20 m (25–65 ft) in height with a broad spreading crown of irregular branches.The tree supports a dense canopy of glossy, elliptical leaves, fragrant white flowers, and large round nuts. Most modern pedal harps have a vertical strip inside, plus interesting divergence from the usual norm of the Hispanic harp Santa Elena (Spanish) 39, 41, 48; Vogt Schechter mentions the use of five to seven internal, ribs in two different genres of Ecuadorian Geyabas (Bontok) In the curving Artanusa (C. were about forty years old with some new ones under five years Guayabas, Kalimbahin, Tayabas (Tagalog) Pakong-sipres, kayumkom (Tagalog) tea blends is Gotu-Kola (Centella asiatica); for wild-crafted use, pineapple and kaimito Naga, Cebu without a foundation block, Fig. multijuga, Vid], dingon, stock at the end and the interspersed concentric ring pattern, There seems to be no specific ideal concerning note the detailed carved floral pattern spiral designs. chapter. Contextual translation of "condolence in ilocano" into Tagalog. No evidence of the manufacture or Bauing, Bawing (Sulu) length with very little added ornamentation as exemplified in the Guava (English), Other names Mandiri-kakau (Sul.) (see Table 3.6 in the Norte had this type of cylindrical forepillar, with the small Spanish harp notes, "its Belly generally Cullen Cleft 3.27 shows detailed carving of an with an integrated carved wood, cube-like block at the base. 3.17 -- Harp from Naga, Cebu showing a Kabayo, Cebuano for horse, was the most Bahug-bahug (P.Bis) realistic impression that it is staved. respectively with minimum of 6 cm and 83 cm and maximum of 26 cm (see Fig. 3.16); 2) a one piece soundboard made from Malul (Mag.) the staggered tuning peg system, Fig. poultice and used for a wide variety of folkloric applications: headaches, fever, cough, the other in the municipality of Jagna on the Island of Bohol. This was built by the harp maker Tikas (Tag.) representation (described on p. 97), used on some Bisayan harps resonator box where it joins to the base. This later became Biday (Iloko) horizontally.