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Hand Percussion · Models

Congas, bongos, djembes, cajons, timbales, frame drums, and the small instruments that live on a percussion table: tambourines, cowbells, shakers, and claves.

4 models

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    Cooperman Frame Drum

    Hand percussion · United States

    Cooperman's frame drums are built with a tuning system that lets a natural head be brought back into pitch as the weather changes, which is the practical objection to skin frame drums answered.

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    Panyard Jumbie Jam

    Hand percussion · United States

    The Jumbie Jam is a small, light, chromatically tuned steel pan on a stand, priced so a school can buy a class set. It did more than anything else to get steel pan taught outside Trinidad.

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    Remo Talking Drum

    Hand percussion · United States

    Squeezing the cords between the two heads raises the pitch mid-stroke, letting the drum follow the tones of speech — which is what gives the family its name across Yoruba, Hausa, and Wolof traditions.

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    Remo Ocean Drum

    Hand percussion · United States

    Tilting the drum rolls hundreds of small steel beads across the head, producing a sound close enough to surf that it is used for exactly that in film and theatre — and, with a clear head, watched as well as heard.