double-skin drum with a triangle

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


Janusz Prusinowski Trio: Janusz Prusinowski, accordion, Piotr Piszczatowski, drum; rec. All the World's Mazurkas, Warsaw 2014; IMIT
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 + 111.211 Individual double-skin cylindrical drums, both heads played + (individual) percussion sticks
Maker: Gajda
Date: 1930s
Village / Town: Lisiewice
Region: Mazovia
Country: Poland
Owner: The State Ethnographic Museum in Warsaw
Inventory number: PME 37450
Description: skins pulled over a tubular wooden body, stretched using hoops with hooks and screws; a metal rod with a triangle (“stalka”) is attached perpendicularly to the body; leather strap to hang the instrument; drumstick with a head wrapped in leather
Decoration: body green painted
Measurements: 530 x 210 mm, drumstick 280 mm
Materials: wood, leather, metal
Performance practice: a component of folk bands
Catalog card by: Teresa Lewińska / Zbigniew J. Przerembski
Design (PDF)


The Kujon Dance; The Stefan Winnicki Band from Łowicz: Stefan Winnicki (b. 1929), accordion, Józef Kossowski (b. 1934), violin, Henryk Muras (b. 1939), drum; rec. 1983; Sources of Polish Folk Music


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