clay drum
Illustration — An udu A clay drum is a variety of percussion instrument found in various parts of the world. It may refer to:
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Illustration — An udu A clay drum is a variety of percussion instrument found in various parts of the world. It may refer to:
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Idiophones
Idiophones
• Ghatam, from India • Udu, from Nigeria
Membranophones
Membranophones
• Alligator drum once used in Neolithic China, made from clay and alligator hides • Goblet drum, from the Middle East • Khol, from India • Kus, from Iran • Madal, from Nepal • Mrdanga, from India • Naqareh, from the Middle East, Central Asia, and India • Tassa, used by Indo-Caribbeans • Tumdak', from India
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- 1.Curt Sachs: The History of Musical Instruments. W.W. Norton & Co., New York 1940, S. 31f
- 2.Bo Lawergren: Neolithic Drums in China. In: Ellen Hickmann, Arnd Adje Both, Ricardo Eichmann (Hrsg.): Studien zur Musikarchaologie V. (Orient-Archäologie, Band 20) Marie Leidorf, Rahden 2005, S. 109–127, hier S. 109, 113
- 3.Sibyl Marcuse: A Survey of Musical Instruments. Harper & Row, New York 1975, S. 122, 147
- 4.Simon Wyatt: The Classification of the Clay Drums of the Southern Trichterbecher Culture (TRB). In: Jungsteinsite, 23. Juli 2008, S. 1–22
- 5.Beate Maria Pomberger, Jörg Helmut Mühlhans, Christoph Reuter: Forschungen zur Akustik der Prähistorie. Versuch einer raum- und instrumentenakustischen Analyse prähistorischer Bauten und Instrumente. In: Archaeologia Austriaca, Band 97/98, 2013–2014, S. 97–114, hier S. 103f
- 6.Curt Sachs: Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente. (1928) Frits A. M. Knuf, Hilversum 1965, S. 134
- 7.Ellen Hickmann: Klänge Altamerikas. Musikinstrumente in Kunst und Kult. Publikationen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, Band 25. Mannheim 2007, S. 215, 222f
- 8.Han Mei: Zheng. In: Grove Music Online, 2001
- 9.Walter Kaufmann: Altindien. Musikgeschichte in Bildern. Band 2: Musik des Altertums. Lieferung 8. Hrsg. Werner Bachmann. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1981, S. 32
- 10.Nathalie M. Webber: Bummädiya. In: Grove Music Online, 13. Januar 2015
- 11.Geneviève Dournon, Margaret J. Kartomi, Peter Manuel: Tāsa. In: Grove Music Online, 26. Oktober 2011
- 12.Alastair Dick, Eben Graves: Khol. In: Grove Music Online, 28. Mai 2015
- 13.Alastair Dick: Tumdak’. In: Grove Music Online, 20. Januar 2016
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