| 单词 | goombay drum |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgoombay drum 1. A hand-beaten drum of goatskin or sheepskin, with a round or square top. Also more fully goombay drum.Goombay drums originated in the Caribbean and were introduced to West Africa by Jamaican marooons (maroon n.2 1a) in the early 1800s. The square-topped form of the drum is particularly associated with Jamaica and Sierra Leone, and the round-topped form with the Bahamas. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > [noun] > other drums taborinc1500 swash1533 war-drum1593 wolf-drum1605 saddle drum1617 tombak1662 tom-tom1693 goombay1790 rommelpot1790 rommelpot?1798 water drum1824 pahu1829 tabl1831 tambourin1832 dholuck1837 nagara1839 tree-drum1850 ngoma1860 talking drum1897 pot drum1907 friction drum1909 trap-drum1924 ghoema1934 tamboo1942 tassa1948 steel drum1952 conga drum1955 roto-tom1968 conga1969 Isukuti1972 steel pan1973 syndrum1979 1790 J. B. Moreton Manners & Customs West India Islands 155 An herring barrel or tub, with sheep-skins substituted for the heads, in imitation of a drum, called a gumbay. a1818 M. G. Lewis Jrnl. W. India Proprietor (1834) 322 The greatest part remained quietly in the negro houses beating the gumby-drum. 1873 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 20 Oct. Accompanying the tom-tom upon a goat-skin stretched over a cask known among them as the gumbay. 1918 G. W. Cable Flower of Chapdelaines xxix. 192 When the goombay—a flour-barrel drum—sounded, the town knew the bamboula had begun. 1973 Tribune (Nassau, Bahamas) 21 Sept. 3/1 They are intoxicated by the beat of the Goombay drums. 2000 Black Masks 31 Mar. 9 Featuring goombay drums, cowbells, whistles, conchshells, bicycle horns, costumed dancers and musicians, Junkanoo is one of the most intense and spiritual world carnivals. < as lemmas |
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