single-skin drum

Classification: 2 Membranophones / 21 Struck drums / 211 Drums struck directly / 211.3 Frame drums / 211.31 Frame drums (without handle) / 211.311 Single-skin frame drums
Maker: Morawski Franciszek
Date: 1973
Village / Town: Kliny
Region: Lesser Poland (Świętokrzyskie)
Country: Poland
Owner: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Inventory number: PME 36576/1-2
Description: skin pulled over a wooden tubular frame, tensioned with a metal hoop with hooks and screws; the wooden frame has three rectangular openings with loose triple metal circles ("grajcary") and one rounded opening to hold the instrument; underneath the frame a bell (made from an electric doorbell) is attached; drumstick with heads on both sides
Measurements: 310 x 60 mm, drumstick 190 mm
Materials: wood, leather, metal
Performance practice: a component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Teresa Lewińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski
Design (PDF)


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