Han percussion pear slices

Pear slices, also known as the crescent slices. Is said drum duet kind of pear, Shandong drum major musical accompaniment. Plowshare pear slices from iron tools, the use of copper
.  Han percussion pear slices
Plowshare pear drum or drum called iron drum, from Shandong countryside farming song. When farmers singing, often rhythmic percussion tools in Plowshare debris, which is initially in the form of pear slice. Song of the development of agricultural drums, they would no longer use the iron plowshare and switched to copper, called pear slices.
Pear thin copper film is semi-circular, length 16, middle width 4, 0.4 cm thick, two to one, heavy 0.25 kg.
While playing, the two fingers hitting the film clip on pronunciation. When used in Shandong clapper by performers from the hit from the singing.
Achang in our southwest border, where people in religious activities, the use of a copper called “ring girls”, though its differences with pear-shaped piece is larger, but still a single pronunciation copper percussion instrument . While playing, the left hand will lift copper or hanging shelves, the right hand short Mizuki flog percussion, sound and vigorous long.