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Skrabalai
Also known as Lithuanian wooden cowbells

A set of tuned wooden boxes with clappers is shaken or struck in a pattern, rolled into a ring of drums.
Heritage note
Part of the living heritage of Lithuania.
Origins
A living tradition passed from person to person; it is not tied to a single dated origin. It belongs to the cultural world of Northern and Eastern Europe.
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