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Tultugan

Posted on April 11, 2006

Featured Aliwan Festival Contingent:
TULTUGAN FESTIVAL
Massin, Province of Iloilo

Tultug is an action verbalizing the act of playing sound on bamboo. Usually this is rendered through a bamboo stick striking it against the body of the bamboo, thus becoming a rhythmic instrument called Tultugan. This is classified in ethnomusicological term as idiophone because the source of sound is the body of the instrument being used as percussion in contrast to the membranophone where a membrane or animal skin is being struck as a drum.

Tultugan Festival, Maasin, Iloilo

The culture of playing the Tultugan is not static, in fact its dynamicity is manifested in the makin of more bamboo-based instruments. Every year, the Tultugan Festival features the newly created one, a proof of the people’s ingenuity and creativity.

Tultugan Festival, Maasin, Iloilo

The challenge is taken increasingly by more people of Maasin to think of improving the musical instruments and consider how aesthetics ad function can contribute, particularly to dance. This is a culture that evolves. To this day, the Tultugan Festival of Maasin continues to be the host of communal participation and creative inputs.

Tultugan Festival, Maasin, Iloilo

This year’s Tultugan Festival representative to the Aliwan Festival is the Tribu Manug-gama. Thr Tribu Manug-gama has also won this year’s top prize at the Kasadyahan Festival in Iloilo City. They bagged the Best in Costume, Music and Choreography Awards.

Tultugan Festival, Maasin, Iloilo