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Drum from Sông Đà, Vietnam.Đông Sơn II culture. Mid-1st millennium BCE. Bronze. A Đông Sơn drum (Vietnamese: Trống đồng Đông Sơn, lit. 'Bronze drum of Đông Sơn'; also called Heger Type I drum) [1] is a type of ancient bronze drum created by the Đông Sơn culture that existed in the Red River Delta.
The Folkton Drums are a very rare set of three decorated chalk objects in the shape of drums or solid cylinders dating from the Neolithic period. Found in a child's grave near the village of Folkton in northern England, they are now on loan to Stonehenge Visitor Centre from the British Museum . [ 1 ]
In ancient Greece and Rome, the tympanon (τύμπανον) or tympanum, was a type of frame drum or tambourine. It was circular, shallow, and beaten with the palm of the hand or a stick. Some representations show decorations or zill-like objects around the rim. The instrument was played by worshippers in the rites of Dionysus, Cybele, and ...
A Đông Sơn drum in Guimet Museum, Paris. The earliest written records describing the drum appeared in the Shi Ben, a Chinese book dated from the 3rd century BC.The Hou Hanshu, a late Han dynasty book dated to the 5th century AD, describes how the Han dynasty general Ma Yuan collected bronze drums from northern Vietnam to melt down and recast into bronze horses.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 January 2025. Type of musical instrument of the percussion family For other uses, see Drum (disambiguation). Drum of Company B, 40th New York Infantry Regiment, at the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863 Talking drum A drum kit A Đông Sơn drum from 3rd to 2nd century BC A pair of conga drums The drum is a ...
On other drums, a hole was made on the drum's underside. Teponaztli from the Mixtec culture in what is today south-central Mexico are known for their various battle or mythological scenes carved in relief. These drums ranged in size from about 1 foot (30 cm) to 4 feet (1.2 metres) long. The larger teponaztli would be rested upon a supporting frame.
The drum was accidentally discovered in 1893 in Hà Nam Province, southeast of Hanoi, by workers building a dike, rather than during a planned expedition. [3] The drum was named after the Confucian name of the village where it was found, Ngọc Lũ (Sino-Vietnamese 玉缕, vernacular tên chữ name Làng Chủ) in Bình Lục District.
Donbalak-e-Moghren: An ancient drum that was a pair of Tombaks. Khombak: Another name for Tonbak. Khomak: Khom-e-ruyin. It literally means small barrel. There is a kind of cylindrical drum in Bengal and its name is Khomok. The khomok of the Baul people of Bengal is also known as a khamak, anandalahari, and gubgubi. It looks like a small drum ...