Davul

The Davul also Dahol; is a doubt that time frame drum that is spread throughout oriental room. In Eastern Europe, where it is anchored mainly in the folk music of the Balkan peoples, it is called Tapan ( Bulgarian Тъпан ).

She has a flat wooden body, which is covered with two different skins. The player wears a belt over the left shoulder. The higher (right ) head is struck with a thin riding crop, the lower (left ) with a massive mallet.

The davul is often played with a double reed instrument zurna together. Both instruments also accompany the Oriental Folk Dance Halay. The combination of a tube drum and a wind instrument of the type of surnāī found in many Asian countries. About the Janissary she got as big drum in the Western military and orchestral music. With the invention of jazz drums she was a model for the bass drum.

Nowadays you will find the davul due to their penetrating sound increasingly also in the music of the medieval scene.

Etymology

The names of many oriental and medieval European drums go to the general Arabic word tabl back for drums. Ottoman historians have davul derived via the osmanischsprachige TABIL of tabl. The word in a Central Asian text from the 11th century for a beaten during falconry drum was read as tovil or tovul. Persian drums are called according Duhul. A same -sounding name also carries the South Indian double skin drum dhavul or tavil. In Sri Lanka, the doubt -celled woody cylindrical drum as the Turkish drum dawula hung over his shoulder. It occurs in religious ceremonies in appearance, a report from 1957 describes the drum in connection with an exorcism ceremony called tovil. Previously it was the Central Asian davul as a shaman drum.

The name for the Arabic drum ultimately comes over the Aramaic tabla from the Akkadian word from Tabalu that emerged in the 8th century BC. About the origin of the instrument is thus nothing is said, for what Tabalu meant is unclear. Known from Mesopotamian pictures drums, such as the Akkadian lilissu and the even older Sumerian balaggu were apparently no precedent davul.