Hand Percussion · Models

8 models

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  Contemporânea Surdo

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  The surdo carries the pulse of a samba school, and Contemporânea builds them in aluminium and wood across the three tuned sizes a bateria uses — first, second, and third surdo.

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  Gope Pandeiro

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  Gope's pandeiros are the ones most often seen outside Brazil, in both nylon and natural-skin heads, and in the aluminium frames that survive travel.

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  Nazareth Berimbau

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  The berimbau is a wooden bow, a steel string, and a gourd pressed against the player's stomach to open and close the resonance. It leads capoeira: the roda's tempo, and which game is played, are called by the berimbau.

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  Contemporânea Pandeiro

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  The pandeiro's jingles are cupped and dry rather than bright, and the head is tunable, which lets one player produce bass, slap, and jingle parts simultaneously.

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  Contemporânea Repinique

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  The repinique is the drum the leader plays to call a samba school in and out of sections, high-pitched and played with one hand and one stick.

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  Contemporânea Tamborim

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  The tamborim is six inches across, held in one hand, and struck with a flexible multi-rod stick; the virada figures it plays are the most recognisable sound in the bateria.

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  Gope Atabaque

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  The atabaque is a tall, rope- or key-tuned hand drum used in Afro-Brazilian religious music and in capoeira rodas, built by Gope in the three traditional sizes.

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  Nazareth Atabaque

  Hand percussion · Brazil

  Rope-tuned with wedges driven down the sides, the atabaque comes in three tuned sizes — rum, rumpi, and lê — played together in Afro-Brazilian religious music.