Bedug

A bedug in Istiqlal mosque, Jakarta.
Percussion instrument
Other namesBeduk, Bedhug
Classification Membranophone
Hornbostel–Sachs classification211.212.1
(Cylindrical drum)
Developedmaritime Southeast Asia
Model of a Sundanese mosque with bedug hung horizontally at lower right, front part of the building. To its left a slit drum is hung vertically.

The bedug (Indonesian and Malaysian Malay: beduk; Javanese: bedhug; Sundanese: dulag) is one of the drums used in the gamelan. It is also used among Muslims in Indonesia and Malaysia[1] to signal mosque prayer times.[2][3] The hitting of the instrument is particularly done according to a rhythm that goes in an increasingly rapid (or accelerando) pace.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Beduk". National Arts and Cultural Department. Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Arts Malaysia. Archived from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 15 May 2021.
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