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slit drum

slit drum is a percussion vessel or family of musical instruments.

Also recorded as slit gong; slit gongs; gulgul.

Contents

Overview

Hollow idiophone carved from wood or bamboo with one or more longitudinal slits, classed as an idiophone rather than a true drum as it lacks a drumhead; widely used across Africa, Asia, and Oceania for communication and ceremony.

In detail

Materials recorded for it are trunk.

It forms part of MIMO's classification of musical instruments.

Connections

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Broader subject

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  • garamutTerminology

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  • huiringuaTerminology

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  • ikoroTerminology

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  • temple blockTerminology

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  • teponaztliTerminology

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  • wood blockTerminology

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Sources

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  1. 1.

    DataCite Commons, deposited research records naming “slit drum”

    Institutional database · Scholarly

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  2. 2.

    Indigenous Music Technology: The Construction of Slit Wooden Drum in Igbo Culture, Nigeria, International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, 2022

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  3. 3.

    Slit Logs and Sacred Cows: The History of the Drum, Music Educators Journal, 1979

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  4. 4.

    Slit-Drum, Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, 2003

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  5. 5.

    Slit-drum, Oxford Music Online, 2001

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    The Vanuatu slit‐drum, Museum International, 1981

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  7. 7.

    “Slit drum”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikipedia

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  8. 8.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 3 articles naming slit drum.

    open access index · Unverified

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  9. 9.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q628428: slit drum

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikidata

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Elsewhere in Collectables

16,309 published records in this field, each with its sources named.

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