Sarronca

The sarronca is a Portuguese traditional musical instrument, more precisely a rubbed membranophone.

It is composed of a stretched skin over a hollow container that serves as a resonance box (which may be a can, a jug, a wooden cylinder or similar). The center of the skin is pierced by a wood stick or a reed, and the sound is obtained by moving the rod downward and upward, so that the rod rubs the stretched skin.

References

Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, Richard Trillo, ed. (1999). World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East. London: Rough Guides Ltd. p. 227. ISBN 1858286352. Retrieved 7 July 2012.

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