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GIGI TOMA sings with Alla Bua LA CADDHRINA (The Hen) an Italian traditional song from Lecce, using their Tamburello (Italian drum used as percussion instrument to play Pizzica Pizzica). In this video the Alla Bua play La Caddhrina during the Sagra (typical town party in Italy) te la Trippa at Struda, small beautiful town into the South of Italy. The Alla Bua are one of the most important groups of Salento using the tamburello to play their songs (infact PIERPAOLO SICURO -flute- & DARIO MARTI -guitar- are the music and lyrics composers and Gigi Toma writes some lyrics of their own sogns, Fiore helps to execute it) to see more of Alla bua go to: www.allabua.it LA CADDHRINA LYRICS cummare l'aggiu persa la caddhrina, cummare l'aggiu persa la caddhrina, sutt'allu liettu tou sutt'allu liettu tou s'ha mmasunata DRUMS - PERCUSSION AND MUSIC The drum is a member of the percussion group of music instruments, technically classified as the membranous. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a drumstick, to produce sound. Other techniques have been used to cause drums to make sound, such as the thumb roll. Drums are the world's oldest and most ubiquitous musical instruments, and the basic design has remained virtually unchanged for thousands of years. Most drums are considered "untuned instruments", however many modern musicians are beginning to tune drums to ...