Hand Drums
What is Hand Drums?
A hand drum is any type of drum that is generally played with the bare hand rather than a stick, mallet, hammer. The easy type of hand drum is the frame drum, which comprise of a shallow, cylindrical shell with a drumhead attached to one of the available ends.
Types Hand Drums
New Age
The Hang is a modern tune up steel hand drum utilize in new age music.
Africa
The Ashiko is another African drum in the shape of a truncated cone.
Same to the Djembe it is rope strung.
The most common African drum known to westerners is the djembe, a large, single-headed drum with a goblet shape.
Bougarabou are African drums with cow skin heads.
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.
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
The daf and the dayereh are Iranian frame drums.
Latin percussion
Congas and bongos are essential to all kinds of Latin American music, especially that of the Caribbean and South American regions, utilize in both folklore
The Tambora, a two-sided drum played with both a stick and a hand, is necessity to the merengue dance of Dominican Republic.
The maracas and timbales are widely played in common music.
Europe
The Irish Bodhrán is sometimes played with the bare hand.
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.
Răbāna or Raban, Gáta Béra, Yak Béra and Udákkiya are used in Sri Lankan music.
One drum head in Daŭla is played by hand, which is again used in Sri Lanka.
Dhōlki is used both in Sri Lanks and India.
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