A lag-na, or na, is an ancient Tibetan
frame drum
A frame drum is a drum that has a drumhead width greater than its depth. It is one of the most ancient musical instruments, and perhaps the first drum to be invented. It has a single drumhead that is usually made of rawhide, but man-made mat ...
. The
drumhead
A drumhead or drum skin is a membrane stretched over one or both of the open ends of a drum. The drumhead is struck with sticks, mallets, or hands, so that it vibrates and the sound resonates through the drum.
Additionally outside of percus ...
has a minimum diameter of about one
metre
The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI). Since 2019, the metre has been defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of of ...
.
Like the ''
dhyāngro'' (the principal drum of the ''
jhakri'' shamans of
Nepal
Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
), the lag-na has a carved, wooden handle.
One plays the na by striking its drumhead with a heavy
percussion mallet
A percussion mallet or beater is an object used to strike or beat a percussion instrument to produce its sound.
The term beater is slightly more general. A mallet is normally held in the hand while a beater may be a foot or mechanically operat ...
.
See also
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Damaru
A damaru (, ; Tibetan languages, Tibetan ཌ་མ་རུ་ or རྔ་ཆུང) is a small two-headed drum, used in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. In Hinduism, the damaru is known as the instrument of the Hindu deity Shiva, associated wi ...
, a small, two-headed drum of Hindu and Tibetan Buddhist tradition
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