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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.
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.
The bombo criollo, or simply bombo, is a family of Latin American drums derived from the European bass drum (also called in Spanish bombo) and native Latin American drum traditions. [1] These drums are of smaller dimensions than the orchestral bass drum, and their frame can be made of wood or steel.
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Common in Native American music and the music of Africa, water drums are characterized by a unique sound caused by filling the drum with some amount of water. [8] The talking drum is an important category of West African membranophone, characterized by the use of varying tones to "talk". Talking drums are used to communicate across distances.
Similar to the Western tambourine, it consists of a circular frame made of the wood of the jackfruit tree, between 7 and 9 inches in width and 2 to 4 inches in depth. It is covered on one side with a drumhead made of monitor lizard skin (specifically the Bengal monitor, [4] Varanus bengalensis, now an endangered species in India), while the other side is left open.
44/876 is a collaborative album by English musician Sting and Jamaican musician Shaggy, also the thirteenth solo studio album.It was released on 20 April 2018 by A&M Records, Interscope Records and Cherrytree Records.
As Spanish is commonly spoken in Spain and most of Latin America, music from both regions have been able to crossover with each other. [2] According to the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores (SGAE), Spain is the largest Latino music market in the world. [3] As a result, the Latin music industry encompasses Spanish-language music from Spain.