Repinique
The repinique (also repique, an older spelling is repenique, in Portuguese male: o repinique, also "the repinique") is a small drum from the Brazilian percussion , which is used in samba and sambareggae .
The body of the drum is 30 to 40 centimeters (12 to 16 inches) high and is typically between 10 and 12 inches in diameter. It was initially made of wood and it was stretched goat skins. As a practical matter, as the drum was developed, the heads were replaced by nylon ones. Today the sound body is made of metal and the heads are made of nylon, which means that the sound has become higher and more metallic over time, as nylon heads can be tightened.
It is played with a wooden mallet and a bare hand or with two thin wooden or plastic sticks and because of the high pitched sound it is often used for "calls" ( Portuguese : chamadas for "shouts"). A typical toque (Portuguese for "playing, rhythm pattern") of the instrument in Samba is the hit with the hand before the actual beat . In the musical structure of a samba percussion group (port .: bateria ) it complements the tamborins , small frame drums . In Sambareggae, the 3-2 clave or the “upside down” bossa nova beat are typical patterns of the groups that they play with two sticks.
A related version of the repinique is the bacurinha. It is smaller in diameter, slightly shorter and is played exclusively with two long, thin whips. In the Timbalada group it replaced the previously used tamborins.
