211.312 Double-skin frame drums

Modern frame drum (dah) with crooked beater (dahjupha).

The drum is suspended from the ceiling of the gompa, monastery, and is tied from below to stabilise it when it is struck with the beater, like the frame drum dah (2005.159), in Buddhist ritual contexts. A photograph of the drum in use within a gompa in the Tawang district, taken by the collector, shows it struck on the head adjacent to the wing nuts. This side drum may be based on mid -19th to early 20th century screw-tensioned British side drums used in military bands; see the snare drum by Hawkes & Son, Horniman Museum number 2004.1065.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
2005.160
Date
circa 2004
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
over-all: 5.98 x 19.06 in; 152 x 484 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
metal; copper alloy; brass; skin; plastic
CATEGORY
Musical Instruments
LOCATION
In storage
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