friction drum with a cord (burczybas)
friction drum with a cord (burczybas)
Local name: burczybas, bùrczibas, brzãczadło, brzãczëdło, brzãczk, mrëczk, bąk, bùk, brantop, brumtop, brumbasClassification: 2 Membranophones / 23 Friction drums / 232 Friction drum with cord
Maker: Mielewczyk Augustyn
Date: 1969
Village / Town: Kartuzy
Region: Pomerania (Cassubia)
Country: Poland
Owner: Museum of Folk Musical Instruments in Szydłowiec
Inventory number: MS/S/27
Description: a wooden stave barrel with two bottoms; in the center of the top bottom there is a hole with a bunch of horse hair attached
Measurements: 245 x 238 mm
Materials: wood, hair
Performance practice: when the hair is rubbed with wet hands or a glove covered with rosin it produces a low sound; a music tool used to make ritual uproar; nowadays used in folk bands in Kaszuby (Cassubia), a symbol of region's musical identity
Catalog card by: Maria Gangi / Zbigniew J. Przerembski
Tadeusz Makowski (b. 1950), burczybas; rec. Jacek Jackowski, Ciechanowiec 2005, 2012; ISPAN
Trojak; The Cassubian Folk Band from Kościerzyna: Leon Laska (b. 1915), violin, Bogdan Peek (b. 1958), violin, Andrzej Wera (b. 1958), accordion, Ireneusz Recław (b. 1960), double bass, Dariusz Zwolakiewicz (b. 1958), devil's fiddle, Kazimierz Maliszewski (b. 1957), burczybas, Ryszard Drożdżyński (b. 1958), burczybas; rec. Kazimierz 1975; Sources of Polish Folk Music
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