Slit drums are found in Asia, the Americas, Africa, an.... slit drum

Large slit drums are sometimes less precisely called slit gongs. Slit drums are frequently ritual instruments that are regarded as possessing magical attributes and are often associated with water and with death and resurrection. Among the Aztecs (as the teponaztli ) and earlier Meso-American peoples, the slit drum was hollowed through an H-shaped slit, the two tongues of which produced different pitches; several instruments are believed to have been combined in order to play melodies. Two smaller, Chinese offshoots of the slit drum are the wood block and the wooden fish (Chinese mu y; also known as temple block), carved in the shape of a mythical fish and lacquered red. slit drum