Ying ku

Ying ku *barrel drum of China, with nailed heads, suspended in an elaborately ornamented frame. The upper head is beaten with 2 sticks. A Confucian temple instr. formerly known as chien ku. It is 90–112 cm. (36–14 in.) high, 76 cm. (30 in.) in diam. (121,142). Sort by:DefaultAuthorTitleDateAscendingDescending Kunst, Jaap. The Music of Java. The Hague, 1949. 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…