is used to refer to any of the different kinds of Japanese drums (和太鼓, wadaiko, "Japanese drum" in Japanese) and to the more or less new art of taiko...

multi-instrumentalist Miyavi – guitar, gigpig, shamisen, sitar, turntables, wadaiko Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano Yoshiki Hayashi – piano, drums Stuart Lang – cornet...

is his favourite machine because "that sound is close to the Japanese Wadaiko drum, it has a unique presence." Their approach to sampling music was a...