MUSICIANS VAULT – Part 4.1
BY BARNEY ORERE
WHILST Papua New Guinea has been opened up dramatically with the advent of modern communication methods, traditionally, tribesmen have used various methods to relay information. Indeed, some of these methods are still used in remote areas. Music as in singing with an instrument of some sort is a form of communication where the artist expresses his thoughts or emotions.
Skin drums, popularily called kundu is used for singsing which could broadly fall under entertainment.
In contemporary terms the skin drum is used in church worship and in some cultures to accompany crying during mourning where the mourners compose songs to honour the dead.
Whatever the occasion, there is a place for skin drums because they were always there in the beginning. It is like Country and Western Music; it was always there, it just came to…
