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The Kudlong is a two-stringed lute that is boat-shaped with wooden tuning rods and frets made of beeswax. One string plays a drone and the other string plays a melody.


The body is also carved to represent a mythical animal with two heads of either the naga (or serpent) or crocodile, or the sarimanok.


Kudlong is distributed among the southern Mindanao groups – the Tiboli, Bilaan, Manobo, Ata, Bagobo, Mansaka, and Mandaya.


Among the Ata people of Southern Mindanao, the long-necked kudlung is usually played by a man who dances with the instrument as he follows the footsteps of a woman playing and dancing with a polycordal zither called saluray.