{"id":460,"date":"2010-08-31T16:16:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T21:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/?p=460"},"modified":"2014-03-31T16:19:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:19:08","slug":"beat-this-rong-house-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/?p=460","title":{"rendered":"Beat This Rong House Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Beat <i>This<\/i> Rong House Drum<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By virtue of being at the right place at the right time, <i>Above the Fray<\/i> is privileged to have acquired a huge, museum-quality, window-rumbling, Jarai <i>Rong<\/i> House drum. Over each end of this drum stretches a taut, thick water buffalo hide \u2013 one side is from the hide of a male, the other a female. The hide was originally tacked on using only bamboo pegs, although a few nails were applied some years (generations?) back to hold one section of hide tightly to the frame. Under the hides and hidden from view &#8211; save a 2 inch wide strip in the middle from which the drum hung &#8211; is an ancient hollowed tree trunk giving the meter-wide drum its frame, and echo.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_461\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02756_3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"size-large wp-image-461\" alt=\"Josh wakes the neighbors on the Jarai Rong House drum.\" src=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02756_3-1024x808.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02756_3-1024x808.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02756_3-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02756_3-379x300.jpg 379w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Josh wakes the neighbors on the Jarai Rong House drum.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The 200 lb. drum (carefully shipped home in a custom-made, 1.5 m<sup>3<\/sup> padded wooden crate) is thought to be 150 or more years old.\u00a0 We were told it was obtained when two villages merged, and the extra drum was sold to help develop the newly expanded village.\u00a0 We continue to search for any knowledgeable articles and research on <i>Rong<\/i> Houses, and specifically <i>Rong<\/i> House drums.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_462\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02791.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"size-large wp-image-462\" alt=\"A close-up of the center of the drum, where the decades of wear on the wood have brought out the grain, and the holes in the water buffalo hide, some pegged by bamboo \u201cnails,\u201d are visible.\" src=\"http:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02791-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02791-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02791-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hilltribeart.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/DSC02791-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A close-up of the center of the drum, where the decades of wear on the wood have brought out the grain, and the holes in the water buffalo hide, some pegged by bamboo \u201cnails,\u201d are visible.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beat This Rong House Drum By virtue of being at the right place at the right time, Above the Fray is privileged to have acquired a huge, museum-quality, window-rumbling, Jarai Rong House drum. 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