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Kokiriko (筑子、 こきりこ) – a pair of sticks which are beaten together slowly and rhythmically; Shakubyoshi (also called shaku) – clapper made from a pair of flat wooden sticks; Mokugyo (木魚, also called 'wooden fish') – woodblock carved in the shape of a fish, struck with a wooden stick; often used in Buddhist chanting
The xylophone-like ranat was used in Hindu regions (kashta tharang). In Indonesia, few regions have their own type of xylophones. In North Sumatra, The Toba Batak people use wooden xylophones known as the Garantung (spelled: "garattung"). Java and Bali use xylophones (called gambang, Rindik and Tingklik) in gamelan ensembles.
Noh (能) or nōgaku (能楽) music is a type of theatrical music used in Noh theatre. Noh music is played by an instrumental ensemble called hayashi-kata (囃子方).The instruments used are the taiko (太鼓) stick drum, a large hourglass-shaped drum called the ōtsuzumi (大鼓), a smaller hourglass-shaped drum called the kotsuzumi (小鼓), and a bamboo flute called the nohkan (能管).
Japan; used to scare birds and deer from crops and to decorate gardens. Water moves the bamboo section (hydraulophone). Noise produced from bamboo striking hard surface (gaiaphone). unpitched percussion: Suikinkutsu (Japanese water zither) struck idiophone: hydraulophone: Japan; water drips into a resonant container producing sound.
Taiko performance was an important part of cultural development by third-generation Japanese residents in North America, who are called sansei. [ 193 ] [ 224 ] During World War II , second-generation Japanese residents, called nisei faced internment in the United States and in Canada on the basis of their race.
This list contains musical instruments of symbolic or cultural importance within a nation, state, ethnicity, tribe or other group of people.. In some cases, national instruments remain in wide use within the nation (such as the Puerto Rican cuatro), but in others, their importance is primarily symbolic (such as the Welsh triple harp).
[5] [6] Noh mai is a dance that is done to music that is made by flutes and small hand drums called tsuzumi. [7] At various points the performers dance to vocal and percussion music; these points are called kuse or kiri. Noh mai dances are put together by a series of forms. [5] Forms are patterns of body movements that are done elegantly and ...
Tapping two sticks together is the simplest form of hand percussion, and has developed a place in traditional music all over the world. Indigenous Australians use clapping sticks alongside the didgeridoo , and claves are an integral part of South American music.