“Taiko” refers to an array of Japanese drums, which have had different ... have two skins stretched across either side of a barrel-shaped wooden body. Traditional taiko drumming, Nonaka ...

The natural fermentation process was the norm in Japan for centuries, but when industrialization swept the nation, almost all the country's wooden barrels were replaced with steel ones.

but the booming sound of Leung’s giant barrel-shaped drum, called an Odaiko, could not be missed. The instrument is just one of the many types of drums used in the Japanese tradition of taiko.