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DRUM
Type: AVANADDHA VADYA
The drum is a percussion instrument made of wood, leather, and parchment. This instrument is majorly used by the ‘Kurumba’ tribes of Kerala in their group dance and music.
DRUM in Kerala
Material: Wood, leather, parchment
A cylindrical drum. Crudely shaped out of a log of tree trunk. Deer skins are stretched on the both heads held through big holes made at the edges of the skin covers and thin leather straps. The instrument is suspended horizontally with the help of a piece of coconut rope and played by both hands. Used by the ‘Kurumba’ tribes of Kerala in their group dance and music.
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