 This feature, which is also common to other related Southeast Asian "boat lutes", also known as "crocodile lutes", which are native to the region.For the Palawano, it is possible to arrange the beeswax frets into different patterns resulting in two different scales for the instrument.These are the "binalig", a higher pitched scale similar to the pelog and accompanying style used to imitate that of the kulintang, and the "dinaladay", a lower pentatonic scale used for teaching pieces of an abstract nature.