The mortar-pounding music is an essential element of the Ita Thao's culture. At the end of July of the lunar calendar each year, people meet at the house of the village chief and play the music of mortar-pounding to begin the Harvest Festival.

The tools used in the mortar-pounding are called mazbabiar, which vary in length, shape and weight, thus creating music with harmonious rich layers. Villagers nearby will join with their bamboo pipes of different lengths. On the eve of the Harvest Festival every year, the music of mortar-pounding and bamboo pipes echoes in the air, calling the brave men who went hunting in the mountains to come home and celebrate Ita Thao’s New Year holidays.

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伊達邵舂石音 (族群)

舂石音是伊達邵文化的主要特色之一，每年農曆七月底，在頭人袁家祖厝舂起石音，即是豐年祭的前奏。

由於杵的材質有所不同，又有精細長短、堅疏輕重之分，因此敲擊在杵石時，組合成多種不同節奏的杵音，旁邊則有數名族人，手持著長短不一的竹筒擊地附和節拍。在豐年祭前夕，以叮噹咚康的杵音，和共鳴應合的竹筒聲，招喚在山中打獵的勇士們，早早返家一齊歡渡邵族新年。