double-skin drum

photo: Waldemar Kielichowski © Institute of Music and Dance, Warsaw

Local name: taraban
Classification: 2 Membranophones / 21 Struck drums / 211 Drums struck directly / 211.2 Tubular drums / 211.21 Cylindrical drums / 211.212 Double-skin cylindrical drums / 211.212.1 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums / 211.212.12 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, both heads played / 211.212.12-811 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, both heads played, with tension ligature
Maker: Unknown
Date: first half of the 20th c.
Village / Town: Blizanów
Region: Greater Poland
Country: Poland
Owner: Musical Instrument Museum, department of the National Museum in Poznań
Inventory number: MNP I 553
Description: skins pulled over a tubular wooden body, stretched with wooden hoops connected using cords with tension ligature
Performance practice: a component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Janusz Jaskulski


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