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Tongkungon
Bamboo tube zither
- People
- Kadazandusun
- Family
- Bamboo tube zither
- Also called
- Tongkungan
- Region
- To verify
- Material
- Bamboo
- Player
- To verify
- Maker
- To verify
- Capture
- Gaussian splat
- Consent
- Not yet recorded
Recordings
No recordings are published for this instrument yet.
In context
The strings are not added to the instrument — they are cut from its own skin, lifted from the surface of the bamboo tube and propped up on small frets. The body and the strings are one piece of bamboo, which is why the tone is so quiet and so particular to the tube it came from.
Community quotes not yet recorded
Shown in English · switch language in the header
Measured tuning
Intervals have not been measured off the recordings yet. Until they are, this instrument is not voiced in the sound machine — we will not substitute an equal-tempered guess.
Cite it
Cite it
[TO VERIFY WITH KNOWLEDGE HOLDERS] (performer). “Tongkungon” — Bamboo tube zither. Kadazandusun community, [TO VERIFY WITH KNOWLEDGE HOLDERS], Sabah, Malaysia. Rua Kita Sound Archive, Far Out Solutions. https://ruakita.my/archive/tongkungon Accessed 2026-07-28.