yu (wooden tiger scraped with bamboo whisk)

~ Percussion instrument

Description

From atleast 600 BC, it is made of wood to resemble a tiger with its spine made into notches. Notches are scraped to produce sound, it was used in ensemble with zhu.

Annotation

Hornbostel-Sachs 112.211

Annotation last modified on 2017-12-14 12:32 UTC.

Relationships

from:China
type of:scraped idiophone
picture:https://static.metabrainz.org/irombook/yu/yu.png [info]
Wikidata:Q848250 [info]
other databases:https://saisaibatake.ame-zaiku.com/gakki/gakki_jiten_gyo.html [info]