Abstract
Bronze drums are important to the culture of the Karen people, who live mainly in Burma and the mountainous region between Burma and Thailand. A Karen bronze drum, which is cast in one piece except for the animal adornments, consists of an overlapping tympanum that may range from 9–30 in. in diameter and a cylinder that is slightly longer than the diameter. Bronze drums have a wide variety of ritual use, both musical and nonmusical. The sound spectrum of a drum shows a dense collection of partials out to about 3 kHz. The corresponding modes of vibration, recorded using electronic TV holography, sometimes show the strongest vibration in the tympanum and sometimes in the cylindrical shell. The sound of the drum and the manner of playing will be illustrated by videotape.
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