A wood block is essentially a small slit drum made from a single piece of wood and used as a percussion instrument. It is hit with a stick and it makes a noise that sounds like "tock, tock." Image File history File links WoodBlock Ph. ... Image File history File links WoodBlock Ph. ... Image File history File links Tublar Wood Block, African Drum, Percussion instruments Ph. ... Image File history File links Tublar Wood Block, African Drum, Percussion instruments Ph. ... Slit Drums are percussion instruments that have parallel slits in one side and one slit across the middle, not always at the center point. ... A tree trunk as found at the Veluwe, The Netherlands Wood is an organic material found as the primary content of the stems of woody plants, especially trees, but also shrubs. ... Percussion instruments are music instruments played by being struck, shaken, rubbed or scraped, hence the percussive name. ...
Oriental musics use a variety of blocks ranging from small hand-held blocks to enormous (often immovable) "temple blocks" which may be sounded by swinging a large log against them.
In order to prepare the wood for the blocks, it must be planed very smooth, so smooth that when two planed surfaces are put together, it will be difficult to separate them without slipping them along.
When the left half of the paper is on the block, the right half is first raised off the block and, in order not to create any wrinkles, rubbed with the left hand up and down gradually from the middle toward the right edge, slowly lowering the paper to the block with the right hand.
When the paper is pasted firmly on the wood, and while it is still moist, the top layer of the paper should be peeled off by rubbing the surface with the tips of the fingers, rolling the fibre of the paper into small rolls.
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