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The mirwās or marwas (Arabic: مرواس), plural marāwīs (Arabic: مراويس) is a small double-sided, high-pitched hand drum originally from the Middle East. It is a popular instrument in the Arab States of the Persian Gulf, used in sawt and fijiri music. It is also common in Kuwait and Yemen.
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Hadhrami migrants from Yemen took the instrument to Muslim Southeast Asia (especially Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei), where it is used in Zapin and Gambus musical genres. A similar drum of this area is the Gendang.
The Marwas drums used to accompany Gambus music in Lampung, Indonesia often consist of four sizes with two skins of a diameter between 12-20 centimetres.[1] The skins are commonly made from goatskin and formerly black monkey skin and are laced with leather or plastic to a jackfruit-wood cylindrical body of around 8 to 10 centimetres in height.[2]
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edit- Double-skinned (double-headed) drums - Oman Centre for Traditional Music
- Traditional music in the Yemen - The British-Yemeni Society
- Charles Capwell, 'Contemporary Manifestations of Yemeni-Derived Song and Dance in Indonesia', Yearbook for Traditional Music, Vol. 27, (1995), pp. 76–89
- Marwas - Musical instruments of Malaysia