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Kolibit (or bamboo zither)

The kolibit is simply a small bamboo tube with a series of ropes that go from one extreme to another, with a kind of nut on each end to raise the strings and thus produce sound when touched. The kolibit is a particular instrument from the Philippines, Kalinga culture, but you can find instruments of this kind in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia, and even in Oceania. These instruments typically have an average of ten or eleven strings, which are pressed to provide sound. Generally, you identify this type of instrument dento the xylophone family (understood as a generic name in musicology).

The following can see a single link of the Philippines kolibit:

rtsp: / / media.nacs.uci.edu: 554/rgarfias/avi/kalinga-kolibit.rm

This is not exactly a filipino kolibit but is of the same family of instruments: