The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, whose pitch can be regulated to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads...
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Repinique Side drum (marching snare drum) Slit drum Snare drum Surdo Tabor Tamborim Tambourine Taiko Tabla Talking drum Tassa (Tasha drum) Tapan Tar Tavil...
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Look up talking drum, talking drums, or talking drummer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A talking drum is an African drum whose pitch can be regulated...
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areas, drums served as an early form of long-distance communication, and were used during ceremonial and religious functions. One is the Talking drum. While...
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Larks' Tongues in Aspic (redirect from The Talking Drum)
Retrieved 4 April 2024. Muir, Jamie (May 1991). Phil McMullen (ed.). "The Talking Drum - An Interview With Jamie Muir" (PDF). Ptolemaic Terrascope (Interview)...
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Mickey Hart (redirect from Mickey Hart & Planet Drum)
(assorted percussion), Keller Williams (guitar, vocals), Sikiru Adepoju (talking drum), Davy Knowles (guitar, vocals), and Andy Hess (bass). The Rhythm Devils...
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stations within Sierra Leone and through the Internet. It was created by Talking Drum Studios and was the first radio soap opera aired in Sierra Leone. In...
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June 1981 at The Manor Studio, the first tracks to be completed were "Talking Drum", which was initially intended to be the next single, and "Canton" (intended...
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Atumpan is a type of Asante talking drum. Played in pairs, these drums provide the bass part in Adowa dance ensembles. These drums are also found in Fontomfrom...
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Dundun may refer to; The Yoruba talking drum Dunun, dundun or doundoun, a family of West African bass drums Dunedin, the second-largest city in the South...
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Another type of drum family called Dundun is from Guinea. This is different from the Yoruba talking drum. It has 3 types of drums, the Dundun Songba...
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the modern art of African Talking drum. The Guardian newspaper described him as the Modern master of the African talking drum. Laoye is the founder of ...
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Membranophone (redirect from Tubular drum)
use of varying tones to "talk". Talking drums are used to communicate across distances. Military drums or war drums are drums in various forms that have...
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Aburukuwa (category African drums)
known as the Abrukwa) is an open drum of the Akan people and the Asante people of Ghana. It is a high-pitched talking drum used by the Akan people, bottle-shaped...
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Look up Drum or drum in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A drum is a musical instrument. Drum, drums or The Drum may also refer to: Drum (communication)...
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started playing drums at the age of 13. At first he practiced on a Slingerland drum kit lent to him. As a teenager, he was practicing drums alone in a large...
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of a talking drum mimicking the word "T'Challa" and a beat from a Roland TR-808 drum machine to "beef it up." Göransson used the base talking drum rhythm...
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Frank Valardi – drums Babakar – African drums T.H. Subash Chandran – ethnic percussion, bowls, tabla, Jew's harp Remi Kabaka – talking drum Mani Subramaniam...
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(drums), Tina Weymouth (bass), and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed groups of the '80s," Talking...
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Ashiko (redirect from Aṣíkò drum)
where the drum functioned in community celebrations, as well as a “talking drum”. Traditional ashikos were/are hand carved from a single lug of wood...
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dunun, a cylindrical drum of the Malinké people Dundun, an hourglass-shaped talking drum of the Yoruba people Junjung, a war drum of the Serer people....
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Flowers", "The Facts of Life" and "Big Daddy" Abdou M'Boup – percussion, talking drum, congas, cowbell on "Blind", "Mr. Jones", "Totally Nude" and "(Nothing...
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sinfonia sitar smallpipes snare drum sopilka spilåpipa steel guitar steelpan stompbox suona švilpa tabla talking drum tambura tin whistle tiple trembita...
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Steelpan (redirect from Steel drum)
including the talking drums of West African cultures. The hourglass-shaped drums were used for communicating messages at a distance with drum language. For...
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Sakara drum is one of the four major families of Yoruba drums of Nigeria. The other families are the Dundun/Gangan or talking drum, the Batá drum and the...
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Tsuzumi (category Drums)
pitch of the drum while playing, not unlike the African talking drum and the Indian dhadd. The predecessor to the tsuzumi, the yōko (腰鼓, hip drum), was brought...
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John F. Carrington (section Drum knowledge)
the Kele language and in the related talking drum form of communication, and wrote a book titled The Talking Drums of Africa. Carrington was born in Rushden...
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Hang (instrument) (redirect from Hang (musical instrument, Hang Drum))
When it is played in a damped way it can change in pitch similar to a talking drum. On the top are seven or eight notes arranged in a tone circle in zigzag...
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Fear of Music (redirect from Paper (Talking Heads song))
considered one of Talking Heads' best releases and has been featured in several publications' lists of the best albums of all time. Talking Heads' second...
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pioneered it. The lead and predominant instrument of jùjú is the gagan, talking drum. Some juju musicians were itinerant, including early pioneers Ojoge Daniel...
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