teponaztli

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a hollow wooden slit drum of central Mexico, especially associated with Aztec and related cultures, sounded by striking two carved tongues

   The musician struck the two tongues of the teponaztli with rubber-headed beaters.

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl teponaztli, the name of the hollow wooden percussion instrument. Its H-shaped slit creates two flexible tongues that can be tuned to different pitches.

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