tambour à double caisson

English translation: double-headed drum

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French term or phrase:tambour à double caisson
English translation:double-headed drum
Entered by: MoiraB

11:07 Sep 12, 2016
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Music
French term or phrase: tambour à double caisson
Can anyone musical confirm that "double-headed drum" is the right term for this? Used as a ritual object by Buddhist spiritual healers.

Devant un autel orné de divinités tantriques bouddhistes, ils officient avec vêtements et attributs inspirés du lamaïsme : tissu rouge couvrant la tête, surmonté d’une couronne à panicules à l’effigie des boddhisattvas, rosaires, **tambour à double caisson**, clochette (ghanta) et foudre-diamant (vajra), cymbales et poignard magique (phurbu),…
MoiraB
France
Local time: 03:36
double-headed drum
Explanation:
Yes that sounds fine to me. (I have a music degree).
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Rebecca Mynett
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:36
Grading comment
Thanks for the confirmation!
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double-headed drum


Explanation:
Yes that sounds fine to me. (I have a music degree).

Rebecca Mynett
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:36
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Thanks for the confirmation!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Charles Davis: Yes, it must refer to a damaru/damru: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damaru . Literally "double-bodied", but that implies something like bongos, which is not what they mean.
29 mins

agree  Lee Nicoletti-Jones: Damaru is most likely, although double-headed drum is just fine as well.
10 hrs

agree  Ronnie J Rigdon
1 day 6 hrs

agree  Yolanda Broad
1 day 9 hrs
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