Hand Drum

A hand drum is any type of drum that is typically played with the bare hand rather than a stick, mallet, hammer, or other type of beater. The simplest type of hand drum is the frame drum, which consists of a shallow, cylindrical shell with a drumhead attached to one of the open ends.

Types of hand drums

Middle & Near East

• A frame drum common in Middle Eastern music is the Tar (drum).
• The tambourine is simply a frame drum with jingles attached to the shell.
• The daf and the dayereh are Iranian frame drums.
• Ghaval is the Azerbaijani frame drum.
• The tonbak is the Persian goblet drum.
• The Doumbek is a goblet shaped drum used in Arabic, Jewish, Assyrian, Persian, Balkan, Greek, Armenian, Azeri and Turkish music.
• Mirwas

Africa

• The most common African drum known to westerners is the djembe, a large, single-headed drum with a goblet shape.
• The Ashiko is another African drum in the shape of a truncated cone. Similar to the Djembe it is rope strung.
• Bougarabou are African drums with cow skin heads.

Latin Percussion

• Congas and bongos are essential to all kinds of Latin American music, especially that of the Caribbean and South American regions, used in both folklore (punta, santeria, rumba, etc.) and popular music such as merengue, salsa, son, boleros, bachata, cumbia, latin jazz, and others.
• The Tambora, a two-sided drum played with both a stick and a hand, is essential to the merengue dance of Dominican Republic.
• The maracas and timbales are widely played in popular music.

Far East and India

• Tabla are central to Indian music.
• The mridangam takes the main spot in Indian classical (Carnatic) music.
• Ghatams and Kanjiras accompany the mridangam in carnatic music.

Europe

• The Irish Bodhrán is sometimes played with the bare hand.

New Age

• The Hang is a modern tuned steel hand drum.

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