Darbouka

The darbouka (or darrabouka) is a percussion instrument in the shape of bowl which can be manufactured in pottery, wood or metal and covered with a skin of animal. The origin of this instrument goes up with Babylonienne antiquity where one used drums with drinking in the neighbourhoods of 1100 before BC. This instrument is very widespread in all the Arab world, in the Middle East as in the Maghreb. One generally plays of the darbouka sitted, by wedging the instrument under the arm and by striking the skin with the fingers or the hands. According to the place where one strikes one obtains a more or less deaf sound, all the art of the play to the darbouka is to alternate the deaf beats and the clear beats. One finds the darbouka in all the styles of Eastern music, the clear sound that it produces underlines the melody effectively. In the classical music, only the men have the right to play of the darbouka.

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