Slit drum

(Fr.: tambour de bois; Ger.: Schlitztrommel; Sp.: tambor de tronco hendido), *percussion tube, often erroneously called drum or gong. In its earliest form a stamped idiophone made of a hollowed-out tree trunk placed over a pit and stamped. The Uitoto Indians of Colombia still so use it. In the next stage of its development it was also a tree trunk, but one hollowed out through a narrow, longitudinal slit. Early types are struck with large sticks, later ones are drummed...