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‖ rommelpot|ˈrɔməlpɔt|
Also rommel pot, rommel-pot.
[Du., = rumble pot.]
a. A type of drum used in southern Africa (see quot. 1840).
b. A type of drum used in the Low Countries (see quots. 1964, 1976).
1840B. Shaw Memorials S. Afr. iii. 44 The rommel pot is a bamboo over which a piece of skin is tightly stretched, and is used as a drum at their [sc. the Namaquas'] dances. 1881Encycl. Brit. XII. 311/1 The ‘rommel-pot’ was a kind of drum. 1964S. Marcuse Mus. Instruments 446/2 Rommelpot.., Dutch and Flemish friction drum with friction stick, made of an earthenware pot sometimes containing water, closed at the top by an animal bladder. The friction stick penetrates the center of the bladder and is rotated or pushed up and down. 1970J. Blades Percussion Instruments x. 196 In Flanders the rommelpot is particularly associated with Christmas. 1976D. Munrow Instruments Middle Ages & Renaissance v. 34/1 The rommelpot..is a type of friction drum... The action required is not scraping the stick to and fro but rubbing it gently with moistened fingers. |