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  • Nazareth Berimbau

    A musical bow with a gourd resonator

    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.

  • Hugh Tracey Treble Kalimba

    Seventeen tuned tines on a kiaat board

    Hand percussion · South Africa

    Tracey's kalimba takes the mbira of southern Africa and gives it a Western diatonic tuning and a solid resonating board, which made it playable by people outside the tradition and turned it into the instrument most of the world calls a kalimba.

  • Panyard Jumbie Jam

    The student steel pan

    Hand percussion

    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.

  • Hugh Tracey Alto Kalimba

    The lower, fuller-toned kalimba

    Hand percussion · South Africa

    The alto sits an octave below the treble with fifteen tines, and is the one most often used for accompaniment rather than melody.

  • Panyard Tenor Pan

    Full-range lead pan

    Hand percussion

    Panyard's tenor (lead) pans are chromatically tuned across the full melodic range and built for school and community steel bands in the United States.

  • Meinl Sonic Energy Steel Tongue Drum

    A tuned steel drum played with hands or mallets

    Hand percussion

    Steel tongue drums are cut and tuned so each tongue sounds a note of a chosen scale, and Meinl's Sonic Energy range brought them into general music retail from the sound-therapy market.

  • LP Ridge Rider Cowbell

    The mounted cowbell of a thousand records

    Hand percussion

    The Ridge Rider is the standard kit cowbell: a reinforced ridge along the top to survive stick impact, and a mount that keeps it where it was put.

  • LP Salsa Timbales

    Working timbales at a working price

    Hand percussion

    The Salsa series covers the standard 13" and 14" timbales pair with a stand, cowbell mounts, and a shell bright enough to cut through a horn section.

  • LP Tito Puente Timbales

    The signature timbales of the mambo bandleader

    Hand percussion

    Tito Puente's LP timbales — brass or steel shells with the distinctive deep rim — are the reference instrument for the idiom he did more than anyone to popularise.