Kanjira Solo
The east and west certainly did develop differently and this contrast is most stark when comparing India and the US. Now trends and ideas are mixing more freely between the two, but for centuries and centuries the outlook was incredibly different and this applied to the world of music as well.
About the kanjira from Wikipedia:
The kanjira, khanjira or ganjira, a South Indian frame drum, is an instrument of the tambourine family. It is used primarily in concerts of Carnatic music (South Indian classical music) as a supporting instrument for the mridangam. The kanjira have been used since 1880’s, and was added to classical concerts during the 1930s.
Similar to the Western tambourine, it consists of a circular frame made of the wood of the jackfruit tree, between 7 and 9 inches in width and 2 to 4 inches in depth. It is covered on one side with a drumhead made of monitor lizard skin (specifically the Bengal monitor, Varanus bengalensis, now an endangered species in India), while the other side is left open. The frame has a single slit which contain three to four small metal discs—often old coins—that jingle when the kanjira is played.