Introduction of Fishing Drum

The fisherman's drum is also known as the dao-tong, bamboo zither. It is a Han Chinese musical instrument popular in Hubei, Hunan, Shandong, Guangxi and other regions, often used in opera performances. It has appeared in the Song Dynasty. It is in the picture of Acrobatic Children's Opera painted by Su Hanchen (Illustrated History of Chinese Music IV-9). The Ming dynasty Wang Qi's San Cai Tu Hui reads: "Fishing drums, cut bamboo for the jack, three or four feet long, with the skin bubbling its head, the skin with the thinnest of pig intestines, with two fingers to hit. There is also a simple child, bamboo for the, two feet long, four or five minutes wide, half as thick, the end of the slightly outside the reverse. Songs with two pieces of the joint strike to the and also". In recent years, the reform made to play melody of the new fishing drums, said the drum, its predecessor for the Sichuan folk music "bamboo qin" accompaniment. By sixteen different lengths of bamboo tube composition, tube one end of cowhide or sheepskin, with bamboo ring fastened, placed in two rows on a wooden frame. They play with bamboo arrows. Range D-f1. Shanghai Film Orchestra and Shanghai Conservatory of Music developed into a 27-tone timpani. Made by Suzhou National Instrument Factory No.3 Tone position according to the rhythmic arrangement, range f-g2. maintain the traditional fishing drum mellow, quiet tone.