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Contemporânea Tamborim

A tiny frame drum played with a multi-rod beater

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.

Category

  • Hand Percussion

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

Made by

  • Contemporânea

    Contemporânea makes the instruments of the Rio bateria — surdos, repiniques, tamborims, caixas, and pandeiros — in Brazil, and supplies escolas de samba as well as the European samba scene.