Hand drum
A hand drum is a drum that is usually played by beating one or both bare hands instead of a mallet or stick or other. A distinction is made between hand-held one-handed drums and two-handed drums that are standing on the floor or hanging in front of the body. The simplest type of hand drum is the frame drum , which usually consists of a circular frame with a drum skin on one side .
Hand drum is a technical, but not an instrument-related category. In principle, any type of drum can be used as a hand drum. The word “hand drum” is sometimes used as a synonym for “frame drum”.
Examples of hand drums
Frame drums
- Bodhrán is an Irish frame drum.
- Daf , also Daff, Def, oriental frame drum.
- Daira , also Daire, Dayereh, Doira, frame drum widespread from the Balkans to Central Asia.
- Ghaval is the Azerbaijani frame drum.
- Tambourine , a simple frame drum, sometimes combined with bells to form a bell tambourine .
- Tar , common in the Orient, with and without a bell ring.
Cup drums
- Darbuka , Arabic tumbler drum
- Djembé , a large, single-sided drum in the shape of a cup, the most famous African drum in the West.
- Ozi , a tumbler drum up to three meters long in Myanmar.
- Tombak is the Persian tumbler made of wood.
- Zerbaghali is the Afghan drum made of clay.
- Congas and bongos are essentially Afro-Cuban musical instruments .
- In Brazilian music , the atabaque is the most famous traditional hand drum.
- The conical timba has played an important role in Brazil since the 1980s .
- Tabla , pair of kettle drums in Indian music .
- Dhadd , in the northern Indian state of Punjab.
- Idakka , in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
- Tsuzumi , in Japan.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peyman Nassehpour: Ghaval: The Azerbaijani frame drum