UDAKEA — Vibrating Membranes. India. Shaped like a dumb-bell. The heads are of skin, the edges being laced together with strips of skin. It is beaten with the fingers.
UMPAN -- Sonorous Substances. Japan. A bronze gong. The circular plate has irregular edges, and on each side an unusually deep incision curves in almost to the center. The gong is large, having a diameter of about two feet.
UTA-DAIKO, SHIME-DAIKO — Vibrating Membranes. Japan. A plain drum, the commonest of the Japanese drums, used in the theatres and played with two plain sticks whose sharp edges are beveled off. In processions it is carried before the player in a wooden frame and is decorated with orange-red cords. If the player is celebrated, pale blue and lilac cords are substituted in his honor. The beating is a vigorous business, both sticks being lifted over the right shoulder, brought down with rapid circular motion, and immediately raised again.
