Category
Hand Percussion · Makers
Congas, bongos, djembes, cajons, timbales, frame drums, and the small instruments that live on a percussion table: tambourines, cowbells, shakers, and claves.
2 makers
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Maker
Asano Taiko
Models: 2 · Categories: 1
The Asano family has made taiko in Ishikawa for four hundred years, hollowing single trunks of keyaki and stretching cowhide over them by hand. The workshop supplies temples, festivals, and the touring taiko ensembles that carried the instrument out of Japan.
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Miyamoto Unosuke Shoten
Models: 2 · Categories: 1
Founded in Asakusa in the nineteenth century, Miyamoto Unosuke makes taiko, festival percussion, and the portable shrines they are played beside. It is one of the two names most associated with the instrument outside Japan.