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In Ogu tradition, the Sato is a revered twin drum, comprising male and female single-faced drums made from the Iroko tree and an animal-skin membrane. The Sato drum is played at major festivals and ceremonies. Each of the two drums is commonly beaten by a four-member group of drummers, who dance energetically around the tall drums.
El Árbol del Tule (Spanish for The Tree of Tule) is a tree located in the church grounds in the town center of Santa María del Tule in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, approximately 9 km (6 mi) east of the city of Oaxaca on the road to Mitla. It is a Montezuma cypress (Taxodium mucronatum), or ahuehuete (meaning "old man of the water" in Nahuatl).
Two water drums. Water drums are a category of membranophone characterized by the filling of the drum chamber with some amount of water to create a unique resonant sound. Water drums are used all over the world, but are found most prominently in a ceremonial as well as social role in the Indigenous music of North America, as well as in African music.
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An essential element of the Tambú is the single drum which is played during a performance, called the tambú or bari (translated to barrel). [11] The original instrument in Tambú's early years was made out of a hollow tree trunk, its opening covered with animal skin. [ 11 ]
The two-skinned barrel drum kebero is used on holidays in the liturgy of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. The Pechiche kettle drum is an approximately 1.2 meter long, slender cylinder drum covered on one side with fur, whose origin is in southern Africa and which occurs exclusively in the village of San Basilio de Palenque in Colombia.
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A geophone assembled for a 2008 performance of Olivier Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles... in Oberlin, Ohio. The geophone, now often known as the ocean drum is a percussion instrument, invented by the French composer Olivier Messiaen for use in his large composition for piano and orchestra entitled Des canyons aux étoiles…