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Gawharet El Fan Riq

The tambourine of Arabic classical music

The riq is a small frame drum with heavy paired jingles, and in Arabic classical music it is a lead instrument rather than an accompaniment — a riq player carries the rhythm and its ornament at once.

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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

  • Gawharet El Fan

    Gawharet El Fan builds tablas (darbukas), riqs, and frame drums in Cairo, inlaid in mother-of-pearl and shell, and is the name most often seen on Egyptian percussion sold abroad.

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