Flower drum

A flower drum (Chinese: 花鼓; pinyin: Huāgǔ) is a type of double-skinned Chinese hand drum.[1]

This article is about the musical instrument. For the opera, see Flower-drum opera. For the song, see Fengyang Flower Drum. For the restaurant, see Flower Drum.
"Huagu" redirects here. For the subdistrict in Hunan, see Huagu Subdistrict.
Flower drum
Percussion instrument
Other namesHuagu
Classification Percussion
Hornbostel–Sachs classificationclassification needed
DevelopedAntiquity

The instrument appears in the plot of the 2002 rewrite of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song, but not in the 1958 original, which took its name from the bestselling 1957 novel The Flower Drum Song on which the musical was very loosely based, see Paigu.

References
  1. http://collection-media.yale.edu/catalog/3903652#.VFEcLfnLefI retrieved 29 October 2014

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