Boiler drum
As boiler drums is called einfellige membranophones with a closed at the bottom, usually semicircular body . They are played with the hands or with mallets and are used individually or often in pairs.
The kettle drums include the timpani played in European art music , the naqqaras , which are widespread in Arab and Central Asian countries, and the Indian tabla . The oldest known kettle drum is the large priest's drum lilissu with a bronze body , which dates back to ancient Babylonian times . An unusually large kettle drum was the kūrgā of the Mongols in the 13th century . The first Ottoman kútsá kettle drum is known from the 14th century, which was carried along on elephants and camels during marches under Osman I.
Kettle drums are divided into deep kettle drums with a deep, roughly circular body and flat kettle drums whose body is shell-shaped. All other types of drums are either open at the bottom like the darabuka- type cup drums that taper downwards or covered with skin on both sides like most tubular drums . A rare borderline case between a flat frame drum that is open at the bottom and a kettle drum is the sahfa drum that is played in Yemen . The mizhavu from South India represent a transition between a kettle drum and a beat idiophon . This large, round copper pot has only a tiny membrane that is beaten with the hands.
Some kettle drums
- Damaha , copper kettle drum played singly or mostly in pairs in Nepal
- Damau , flat metal drum in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand
- Dhamsa , the largest kettle drum in north Indian folk music with a body made of sheet iron
- Dhanki , rare kettle drum played in pairs with a wooden body in South India
- Diplipito , a pair of kettle drums in Georgia
- Duggi , small north Indian boiler drum, especially in the music of the Bauls
- Ghumat , clay drum covered with monitor skin in the Indian state of Goa
- Cult run , flat wooden bowl, shaman's drum from the South American Mapuche
- Nafa , large boiler drum in the South Pacific ( Samoa , Tonga ). Otherwise designation for slotted drums
- Nagra , large kettle drum beaten with sticks, which isconsidered sacredby the Garo in the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya
- Rebana , flat kettle drum or frame drum in Indonesia
- Tamattama , a pair of kettle drums made from two wooden bowls connected to one another
- Tasa , also tassa , in ancient Persia tās , kettle drums in India, the Caribbean and Sumatra
- T'bol , tube and kettle drums of various sizes in the Maghreb
- Turburi , small clay drum of the Muria ( Adivasi ) in the central Indian district of Bastar
literature
- Sibyl Marcuse : Musical Instruments: A Comprehensive Dictionary. A complete, authoritative encyclopedia of instruments throughout the world. Country Life Limited, London 1966, pp. 281f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Henry George Farmer : Monster Kettledrums. In: Music & Letters, Vol. 43, No. 2, April 1962, pp. 129f