Tsin ku

Tsin ku *barrel drum of China, ca. 2 m. (6½ ft.) long, with the same diam., suspended vertically in a frame. A Confucian temple instr., it corresponds to the da daiko of Japan and the chin ko of Korea (142). Moule, A. C. “A List of the Musical and Other Sound-producing Instruments of the Chinese,” in Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Vol. 39. London, 1908.