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Music - Drum beat - Kwaio, Malaita
Solomon Islands
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Young boy playing traditional drum in Port Moresby, PNG.UNESCO_A.Takahashi
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The Music of Tumbuk Kalang
The farmers’ community assumes that the festive season is the harvesting season. At this time, they are in jolly mood because they obtain revenue from their own sweat poured into their paddy fields all these while. It has been normal that when every time paddy harvesting season approaches the farmers organise a paddy flaking festivity made merrier by a game of Tumbuk Kalang. Often this game is held house to house and lasts for a number of evenings. The musical instruments for the Tumbuk Kalang performance are a set of caklempong, gong, paddy pestles and hand-held drummettes.
Malaysia -
Bongai
Bongai is not an unfamiliar music in Negeri Sembilan; can be categorised as a traditional song especially for the state’s community. This music is very popular in merriment events that involve weddings. The word Bongai was created from two words that are “Bong” means “a respected person”, and the word “Aye” means “me”. Bongai songs are always performed in exchange of quatrains form by individuals or duet, or in groups. Among the popular songs are Cantik Manis, Kapeh, Irama Budu Landai, Donak Donai and Anak Bocek. The musical instruments that always accompany this music performance are the caklempong, accordion, gong, hand-held drummette, and clarinet.
Malaysia -
Gendang Melayu Sarawak(Sarawak Malay Drums)
This documentary on Gendang Melayu (Malay Drums) Sarawak highlights the maker of the drums ; Hj Umar Tomik and his younger brother Safuan Tomik. Makers of these Gendang Melayu Sarawak are unfortunately decreasing due to many factors, the most crucial being the lack of interest among the youths. In this documentary we’ll get to see how the drums are made, how they are different from the drums in other parts of Malaysia, the types of wood used to make them (including the unique Belian wood which can only be found in the Borneo Islands), methods of hitting the drums, types of hits, and reason behind the design of the Gendang Melayu Sarawak’s shape.
Malaysia -
Gendang Melayu Sarawak(Sarawak Malay Drums)
This documentary on Gendang Melayu (Malay Drums) Sarawak highlights the maker of the drums ; Hj Umar Tomik and his younger brother Safuan Tomik. Makers of these Gendang Melayu Sarawak are unfortunately decreasing due to many factors, the most crucial being the lack of interest among the youths. In this documentary we’ll get to see how the drums are made, how they are different from the drums in other parts of Malaysia, the types of wood used to make them (including the unique Belian wood which can only be found in the Borneo Islands), methods of hitting the drums, types of hits, and reason behind the design of the Gendang Melayu Sarawak’s shape.
Malaysia -
Gendang Melayu Sarawak(Sarawak Malay Drums)
This documentary on Gendang Melayu (Malay Drums) Sarawak highlights the maker of the drums ; Hj Umar Tomik and his younger brother Safuan Tomik. Makers of these Gendang Melayu Sarawak are unfortunately decreasing due to many factors, the most crucial being the lack of interest among the youths. In this documentary we’ll get to see how the drums are made, how they are different from the drums in other parts of Malaysia, the types of wood used to make them (including the unique Belian wood which can only be found in the Borneo Islands), methods of hitting the drums, types of hits, and reason behind the design of the Gendang Melayu Sarawak’s shape.
Malaysia -
Inn Yoe Yar Ozi Kyi (Traditional Big Drum)
Cut a piece of Yamanay wood into desired length and carve the wood into the shape of Ozi. Then, the head is covered with leather and the body is lacquered. Due to its huge size, this Ozi is shouldered by two men to play. It is played by hitting with a stick wrapped with cloth. This traditional Ozi is usually played with by five brass gongs and brass cymbals. He’-yar Ywarma Village has a lifespan of 504 years. In this village, He’-yar festival is annually held in Dazaunmon (November). The traditional Ozi Kyi is played in this occasion and in Phaungtaw U Pagoda festival.\n-4 feet 5 inches in length\n-2 feet 1 inch in diameter of the head\n-6 feet 8 inches in circumference of the head\n-1 feet 6 inches in length of chicken breast\n-2 feet 9 inches in length of Padain\n-3 feet in circumference of Padain\n-6 feet 8 inches in circumference of lower part\n-6 feet 8 inches in circumference of the bottom
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Lwal Shan(Tin Loi) Christ Ozi (Long drum)
Hollow out the wood and cover the head with the cow hide. Kyet Yin (the Shape of chicken breast) is painted black. The throat is painted red and decorated with ribbons.\n-2 feet 2 inches in length of Ozi\n-8 inches in length of the shape of chicken breast\n-2 feet in circumference of the shape of chicken breast\n-1 inch in diameter of the shape of chicken breast\n-1 feet 5 inches in circumference of Padain\n-1 feet 6 inches in length of throat
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Rakhine Ozi (Pot Drum)
Padauk wood is used to make the body and two drumheads are covered with cow-skin and goat skin. The wood has to make a hollow and cow skin or goat skin is tightly stretched over the round frame of Ozi. The leather must be tightly tied with the strings of jute fibers. According to the song, it can be played with hand. It has to play together with the cymbals and gong.\n-3 feet in length\n-10 inches in circumference of drumhead\n-3 feet 2 inches in the girth of Ozi\n-1 feet 5 inches in the girth of body\n-3 feet in the bottom circumference
Myanmar -
Danu Bjo (Two Haden Drum)
Wood is cut into desired measure before it is made hollow and covered with leather to its ends. Byaw is played with knob beater by striking four times to its drumhead and one time on its body.\n-1 feet 8 inches in length\n-5 feet 1 inch in circumference\n-1 feet 3.5 inches in diameter of left drumhead\n-1 feet 4 inches in diameter of left drumhead
Myanmar -
Kachin Htaung Kyein Ozi (Long-Drum)
Hard wood is curved in a shape of pitcher and made hollow. The leather is stretched over the head of Ozi. Unlike Myanmar traditional pot-drums and Jeinpaw traditional pot-drums, it has a long throat. The shaped of chicken breast or Kyat Yin is lacquered with black resin. The throat of Padinewin is painted in the strips of red and black colours. It has to be played by striking its drumhead.\n-4 feet 6 inches in height\n-11 inches in diameter of drumhead\n-1 feet 5 inches in the circumference of drumhead\n-1 feet 2 inches in the circumference of Padain\n-3 feet 2 inches in length of throat\n-1.5 inches in height of base part\n-3 feet 2 inches in circumference of base part
Myanmar