Norsk musikkvokabular: Instrumenter og ensembler Nasjonalbiblioteket, Deichman, Biblioteksentralen SA, Norges musikkhøgskole (NMH), NRK og Norsk musikkbibliotekforening (NMBF) Nasjonalbiblioteket https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ 2021-09-30 2026-03-24 14:55:31 nb Talking drum The talking drum is an hourglass-shaped drum from West Africa, which can be used as a form of speech surrogacy by regulating its pitch and rhythm to mimic the tone and prosody of human speech. It has two drumheads connected by leather tension cords, which allow the player to change the pitch of the drum by scraping the cords between their arm and body. (Wikipedia, 04.11.2025) Talking drum 2021-10-25 11:42:53