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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.
Another alternative drum used was known as the kalbas den tobo (“calabash in a tub”), which was made using wooden wash tubs filled with water and a large calabash floating on top. [11] This produced a muffled, quiet sound that allowed Tambú to be performed indistinctly. [11] New types of drums continued to appear in Curaçao.
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…
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. There she is beaten in the Cabildo Lumbalú according to African tradition to accompany funeral songs. [10]
Two sticks made of peepul tree or bamboo are used to beat the drum. [12] A variation of the equipment called Kinai Parai, essentially a larger drum hung from tree tops that would be played to announce an incoming battle or war. [4] The parai used in Sri Lanka is a double-sided drum compared to a skinnier one-sided drum used in Tamil Nadu. [17]
But for Ree Drummond, there's one Christmas tradition that stands out from the rest. "To me, seeing a nutcracker means the holidays have arrived," she notes, adding, "I just love them."
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The drums musicians play have a hierarchy system. Drummers start on a large bass drum called tariparau (sometimes called pahu). This is the only drum that the very few female drummers in Tahiti play. [2] It has two membranes traditionally made out of sharkskin and is struck with a single mallet making the timbre low but only slightly resonate.