udukai
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The udukku , udukai or udukkai (Tamil: உடுக்கை) is a member of the family of membranophone percussion instruments of India and Nepal used in folk music and prayers in Tamil Nadu.
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Vinony's link graph records 105 inbound references to udukai, and connects out to damaru, Tamil and Mahabharata.
It sits within the topics Asian percussion instruments, Hand drums and Indian musical instruments.
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- hourglass drum
- Country of origin
- India
- Image
- Udukkku.jpg
- Has use
- music of India
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Hudukkâ
- Huruk
- Hudko
- Characteristics
- Playing
- Udukku
- See also
- References
- External links
The udukku , udukai or udukkai (Tamil: உடுக்கை) is a member of the family of membranophone percussion instruments of India and Nepal used in folk music and prayers in Tamil Nadu.
The drums are an ancient design of hourglass drums similar to the northern damaru and southern idakka. Its shape is similar to other Indian hourglass drums, having a small snare stretched over one side. They are played with the bare hand, and the pitch may be tered by squeezing the lacing in the middle. It is made of wood or brass and is very portable. It originated in Tamil Nadu as well. Other members in the family include thehuruk, hurkî, hurko, hudko or hudka, utukkai.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “udukai” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.