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The male performer is
drumming on a shime daiko. Shime
is s pronounced, [she' meh]. With chime, it does not
rhyme. *
"Shime Daiko and
Tsukeshime Daiko - the small, high pitched taiko (usually with a head 14
to 16 inches in diameter) that often plays the "jiuchi"
(the basic feel and meter of a taiko song). The name comes from the word "to
tighten," since the skins are traditionally held with rope (sometimes bolts) and
can be tuned." Source:
Dictionary of Taiko Terminology
* We'll
never forget our Midwestern friends who ordered their first
Japanese dinners at a local restaurant with great aplomb.
The combination dinners were given evocative names
like "Take," which means bamboo and
"Ume," which means plum.
They ordered them as
"take", as in 'give and take' and "oom"
as in 'Oom pah pah band." The hapless,
minimal-English speaking waitress was nonplussed. We
cracked up. Warui! (Naughty!) |
