Flower drum

Flower drum
Percussion instrument
Other names	Huagu
Classification	Percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classification	classification needed
Developed	Antiquity

A flower drum (Chinese: 花鼓; pinyin: Huāgǔ) is a type of double-skinned Chinese hand drum.^[1] The huagu is normally painted red on the sides and generally smaller than the usual tanggu, which makes it easier to use. Usually a red colored sling strap is used by the performer. It is beaten with wooden sticks like other Chinese drums.

Impact on non-Chinese popular culture

The instrument appears in the plot of the

bestselling 1957 novel The Flower Drum Song on which the musical was very loosely based; see Paigu

.

References

^ "Hua gu (Flower Drum) - Digital Collection; Yale Collection of Musical Instruments". Archived from the original on 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2014-10-29.

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[1] "Hua gu (Flower Drum) - Digital Collection; Yale Collection of Musical Instruments". Archived from the original on 2014-10-29. Retrieved 2014-10-29.

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