Darbuka, also known as doumbek (or tumbak), or derbeki, is a Middle Eastern percussion instrument. The goblet-shaped single headed hand-drum is an ancient drum. It was originally played in Egypt, ...

Whether you are planning to learn a percussion instrument or want to switch from one to another, you need to check out some good percussion instruments for beginners. There are plenty of choices ...

Evans and Sunhouse have announced that they have joined forces for the Evans Hybrid Sensory Percussion Sound System: an overhauled version of Sunhouse’s Sensory Percussion technology, which can ...

Through many of us may kitchen-top-finger-tap or office-desk-thumb-drum out of impatience or boredom, folks like Jeremy Ellis and Wilhelm Grahsl have turned it into an impressive art form, with a ...

For a long time, the tamate has been considered an “untouchable” instrument in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh because caste Hindu groups associate it with communities that work with leather and perform ...

As a child, you may have been pretty proud of yourself for making your own chimes out of drinking glasses filled with varying levels of water. But that pales in comparison to “Sound Pegs,” the new ...

We were at the Kanchipuram Kamakshi temple for the Brahmotsavam. The goddess, in Mohini alankaram, was taken around the streets in a golden palanquin, to the accompaniment of rhythmic beats from a ...

The mridangam is a percussion instrument being used for millennia in Indian classical music. To call it simply a two-sided drum is to do it injustice since maestros who play it can actually make it ...

Described as using sensors rather than traditional drum trigger technology he system was first released by Sunhouse in 2015, and works using a combination of drum-mounted sensors and machine learning ...