Den-den daiko

Japanese hand-held pellet drum

Den-den daiko
Japanese

Classification	Percussion
Related instruments
Pellet drum, drum, bell

The Den-den daiko (でんでん太鼓, lit. "denden [double-ended] Drum") is a Japanese hand-held pellet drum, used in Shinto-Buddhist ceremonies, etc.

It has two heads and is suspended on a rod, with beads or pellets hanging on threads on either sides of the body of the drum. The drum sounds when it is turned on its axis from side to side, causing the beads to strike the heads of the drum. It is similar to the Chinese pellet drum.

References

Traditional Japanese musical instruments

String

Plucked	Biwa Ichigenkin Koto Kugo Sanshin Gottan Kankara Shamisen Yamatogoto Tonkori
Bowed	Kokyū

Wind

Flutes and
oboes

Gakubue Kagurabue Komabue Minteki Nōkan Ryūteki Shinobue Yokobue
Hichiriki Hotchiku Shakuhachi

Free-reed
pipes

Shō
Yu

Horns

Horagai

Percussion

Drums	Kakko Taiko Ōtsuzumi Shime-daiko Tsuzumi Tsuri-daiko Ikko San-no-tsuzumi Den-den daiko
Blocks	Hyōshigi Mokugyo Sasara Ita-sasara Binzasara Kokiriko Shakubyoshi Sanba
Gongs	Shōko Kagura suzu Kane