Flower drum

This article is about the musical instrument. For the opera, see Flower-drum opera. For the song, see Fengyang Flower Drum. For the restaurant, see Flower Drum.
"Huagu" redirects here. For the subdistrict in Hunan, see Huagu Subdistrict.
Flower drum
Percussion instrument
Other namesHuagu
Classification Percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classificationclassification needed
DevelopedAntiquity

A flower drum (Chinese: 花鼓; pinyin: Huāgǔ) is a type of double-skinned Chinese hand drum.[1] The huagu is normally painted red on the sides and generally smaller than the usual tanggu, which makes it easier to use. Usually a red colored sling strap is used by the performer. It is beaten with wooden sticks like other Chinese drums.

The instrument appears in the plot of the 2002 rewrite of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, but not in the 1958 original, which took its name from the bestselling 1957 novel The Flower Drum Song on which the musical was very loosely based; see Paigu.

References

  1. ^ "Hua gu (Flower Drum) - Digital Collection; Yale Collection of Musical Instruments". Archived from the original on 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2014-10-29.


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