| 单词 | talking drum | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastalking drum   talking drum  n.  Brit.  , U.S.  , West African English   one of a set of drums, each pitched differently, which are beaten to transmit the words of a message in a tonal language, chiefly in West Africa (usually in plural).ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > signalling with other sounding instruments > 			[noun]		 > drumbeat as signal > representing tonal language talking drum1897 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > percussion instrument > drum > 			[noun]		 > other drums taborinc1500 swash1533 war-drum1593 wolf-drum1605 saddle drum1617 tombak1662 tom-tom1693 goombay1790 rommelpot1790 rommelpot?1798 water drum1824 pahu1829 tabl1831 tambourin1832 dholuck1837 nagara1839 tree-drum1850 ngoma1860 talking drum1897 pot drum1907 friction drum1909 trap-drum1924 ghoema1934 tamboo1942 tassa1948 steel drum1952 conga drum1955 roto-tom1968 conga1969 Isukuti1972 steel pan1973 syndrum1979 1897    M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. vi. 114  				In the street one sees the characteristic standing drum..and one or two talking-drums besides. 1923    R. S. Rattray Ashanti iii. 104  				The big talking drums were immediately behind him and beat out: The King has sat down. 1966    C. Achebe Man of People xiii. 166  				These were the same people that only the other day..praise-singers followed with song and talking-drum. 1977    Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 48/2  				Even drummer Mick Fleetwood finally ventured out from behind his drum kit to play the African talking drum on ‘World Turning’. 1983    Guardian 19 July 9/4  				A talking drums player from Ghana who seemed to have wandered on stage uninvited. < as lemmas  | 
	
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