Talk:Garamut

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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 talk 13:26, 8 September 2025 (UTC)

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A garamut from Papua New Guinea

• ... that the use of the garamut (pictured) drum has been compared to using a phone? Source: The continued use of the garamut in some parts of Madang Province provides an aspect of continuity to the introduction of the mobile phone. Through using the garamut, people in many parts of Madang Province “have never actually needed to move physically to be able to communicate with one another” (Unwin, 2009a, p. 18), so “very rapid communication over considerable dis-tances is not a particularly new concept” (Unwin, 2009a, p. 18)...One interviewee said the garamut was called a village mobile phone because of that.
  • ALT1: ... that different sounds played on the garamut (pictured) drum can indicate the intended recipient? Source: ...the particular timbre of the garamut can indicate to whom the message applies. Orora has five clans within the village, and different drums, with different sounds, for each clan.
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Marcel Schwerzmann
  • Comment: Submission for Papua New Guinea's 50th Independence Anniversary on 16 September 2025

Created by Chipmunkdavis (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 61 past nominations.

CMD (talk) 05:01, 12 August 2025 (UTC).

• Doing... ミラP@Miraclepine 16:27, 22 August 2025 (UTC)

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Made a day before DYK and prose at 6480 B. Image is PD and, besides having to fix page numbers and to PDF download ref 6 to even get page numbers, no other issues worth noting here. ミラP@Miraclepine 17:19, 22 August 2025 (UTC)