Pambai

The pambai or pamba is a pair of cylindrical drums used in temple festivals and folk music in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, India.

There is a community in southern Andhra who specialize in playing this instrument: the Pambalas. This unit of two drums is held near the waist of the player or put on the floor, and beaten with sticks, or with a hand and a stick. In the simpler varieties, both drums are made of wood, but there is a pambai in which one drum is of wood and the other of brass: the wooden one is known as veeru vanam and the metal drum as vengala pambai. The pambai is played in the traditional ensemble naiyandi melam.

References

• South Asia : The INDIAN Subcontinent. (Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 5). Routledge; Har/Com EDition (November 1999). ISBN 978-0-8240-4946-1

External links

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