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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communication of points of order. Some of the groups of variations of the talking drum among West African ethnic groups: Tama (Wolof of Senegal) Gan gan, Dun...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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production methods. However, it is the Nder (lead drum), the Sabar (rhythm drum), and the Tama (talking drum) percussion, and widely influenced African and...
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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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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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(drums), Tina Weymouth (bass) and Jerry Harrison (keyboards, guitar). Described as "one of the most critically acclaimed bands of the '80s," Talking Heads...
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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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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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New Guinea) Ōtsuzumi (Japan) Tsuzumi (also called kotsuzumi) (Japan) Talking drum also called dundun, kalangu, donno, or tama (West Africa) Trống sành...
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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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Ekwe (category Slit drums)
events, or it can be used for music. The ekwe is also used as a type of talking drum communicating, in the past, with others at long distances. Ekwe players...
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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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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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as soldiers. In the aftermath, Search for Common Ground established Talking Drum Studios to foster healing, democracy, and peace. An especially popular...
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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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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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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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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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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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pioneered it. The lead and predominant instrument of jùjú is the Iya Ilu, talking drum. Some juju musicians were itinerant, including early pioneers Ojoge Daniel...
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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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