Maker

Nazareth

Brazilian maker of hand percussion and berimbaus

Nazareth builds berimbaus, atabaques, and pandeiros in Brazil for capoeira and candomblé, where the instruments are made to be played hard and outdoors rather than recorded.

Models

  • 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.

  • 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.

Categories

  • Hand Percussion

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

Representative model

  • 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.