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What is percussion?

Built drums, hall drums, flower pot drums, waist drums, book drums, tambourines and so on.

1, Jian drum

Jian drum, the ancient name of the foot drum, Jin drum, pillar drum. Mongolia, Manchu, Han and other ethnic flogging membrane sounding instruments. Had been used by the court of successive generations. Popular in Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Qinghai and other provinces and districts of the lama temple and the vast area of Han.

2, flower pots drum

Sawed into a wide plate under the narrow drum bang, stacked and glued into the drum cavity after the car spinning into. Both sides of the skin. Drum body coated with dark brown lacquer, with drum frame. Flowerpot drum is also known as the South Tang drum, cylinder drum.

3, waist drum

Waist drum is China's traditional folk musical instruments, it comes from life, but also a good expression of life. Waist drum is a national flogging membrane sounding instrument, a long history, brittle pronunciation, in the folk are widely circulated, the unique charm of the Ansai waist drums set off the yellow earth, showing the northwest loess plateau farmers simple and bold character, flaunts a unique artistry.

4, datang drum

Datang drum, more than the use of tsubaki wood, color wood, birch and poplar wood, etc. to make the drum body, the drum skin more than the use of buffalo skin. In the drum body is covered with two pieces of the same area of cowhide and become, usually placed on a wooden frame with two drums playing.

5, book drum

Book drum, is the Buyi, Han Chinese flogging membrane sounding instruments. Buyei called tambourine. Popular in Guizhou Province and throughout the country, dedicated to northern China rap music "big drum book" and other kinds of drum book accompaniment. Form and structure of the drum frame wooden, flat and round, both sides covered with cowhide or sheepskin, leather around the edge of the drum with drum nails fixed.