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Mirwas

Unpitched percussion instrument

Summary

Unpitched percussion instrument

The mirwās or marwas (), plural marāwīs () is a small double-sided, high-pitched hand drum originally from the Middle East. It is a popular instrument in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, used in sawt and fijiri music. It is also common in Kuwait and Yemen.

Hadhrami migrants from Yemen took the instrument to Muslim Southeast Asia (especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei), where it is used in Zapin and Gambus musical genres. A similar drum of this area is the Gendang.

The Marwas drums used to accompany Gambus music in Lampung, Indonesia often consist of four sizes with two skins of a diameter between 12-20 centimetres. The skins are commonly made from goatskin and formerly black monkey skin and are laced with leather or plastic to a jackfruit-wood cylindrical body of around 8 to 10 centimetres in height.

References

Double-skinned (double-headed) drums - Oman Centre for Traditional Music
Traditional music in the Yemen - The British-Yemeni Society
Charles Capwell, 'Contemporary Manifestations of Yemeni-Derived Song and Dance in Indonesia', Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 27, (1995), pp. 76–89
Marwas - Musical instruments of Malaysia

References

(2012). "Musical Journeys in Sumatra". Urbana.
(2012). "Musical Journeys in Sumatra". Urbana.

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