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bandurria
The bandurria is a plucked chordophone from Spain, similar to the mandolin and bandola, primarily used in Spanish folk music, but also found in former Spanish colonies.
suling
thumb|A Native Indonesian boy, playing a Sundanese suling thumb|Seruling Gambuh BaliThe suling (Sundanese: ) is a musical instrument of the Sundanese people in Indonesia. It is used in the Degung ensemble. Bamboo ring flute can also be found in Southeast Asia, especially in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore.
kendang
thumb|right|262px|Various Kendangs (top row) depicted on the 8th-century Borobudur temple in [[Central Java, Indonesia]]
nose flute
musical instrument
Gambang
wooden xylophone used in Javanese gamelan
laúd
thumb|A rondalla with laudes included thumb|English musician Steve Howe (musician)|Steve Howe playing the instrument at a Yes show in 2013
dabakan
The dabakan is a single-headed Philippine drum, primarily used as a supportive instrument in the kulintang ensemble. Among the five main kulintang instruments, it is the only non-gong element of the Maguindanao ensemble.
agung
The agung is a set of two wide-rimmed, vertically suspended gongs used by the Maguindanao, Maranao, Sama-Bajau and Tausug people of the Philippines as a supportive instrument in kulintang ensembles. The agung is also ubiquitous among other groups found in Palawan, Panay, Mindoro, Mindanao, Sabah, Sulawesi, Sarawak and Kalimantan as an integral part of the agung orchestra.
Las Piñas Bamboo Organ
19th-century church organ in the Philippines
kutiyapi
300px|thumb|right|A Maguindanao people|Maguindanao kutiyapi bearing [[okir motifs]]
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.