Category
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
-
Model
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.
-
Model
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.
-
Model
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.
-
Model
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.