weight 4,5-5,5 kg hand-crafted wooden body out of a single trunk selected goat skin professional tunable prestretched rope system wide tonal range perfect for the discerning student Ghana

hand-crafted wooden body out of a single trunk selected goat skin professional tunable prestretched rope system wide tonal range, brilliant slaps, deep bass tones perfect for discerning players and enthusiastic professionals Guinea, Mali

hand-crafted wooden body out of a single trunk cow-skin with hair, can be shaved on request professional tunable prestretched rope system warm sound and a powerful bass enchanting deep, warm resonance traditionally used for festivity and...

hollowed log-drum, carved from one piece of hardwood very clear and dynamic, percussive sound perfect to accompany drum ensembles religious ceremonial instrument Guinea, Mali and Senegal

robust wooden frame drum, incl. mallet strong, unshaved cowskin head professional pre-stretched polyester rope rigging and grip beautiful finish warm, overtone-rich, pervasive sound perfect for shamanistic rituals, trance, therapy and...

ceramic vessel with two holes bright bongolike sounds by striking the corpus, bass sounds by playing on the holes popular instrument to simulate the heartbeat originally a Nigerian instrument, nowadays very popular in West Africa and...

quality steel with strong hammerblow paintwork with mallets and plain bag C major pentatonic, 440 Hz: C, D, E, G, A, C, D, E the scale is called Raga Bhopali in India happy, bright, bell-like sound. Popular sunny tuning for a joyous mood...

high quality polished aluminium corpus, threaded steel screws, chromed rings robust, tunable nylon heads 6 hooks perfect for carneval and batucada repinique are used, together with the apito whistle, to signal calls, rhythms and tempo...

two metal bells, welded to a U-shaped steel rod with mallet clear, precise sound while one hand strikes the beat, the other presses the bells with a dry 'click' together Brazil

soft wood, painted in various colours wide range of scraping and clicking sounds the call of tropical frogs can be played as a guiro scraper and as a woodblock Thailand

rattle made of plant fibres calebash bottom, filled with finest pebbles strong sound energizes rhythms Ghana

saman wood wide range of strongly variable sounds, rich in overtones with circular breathing, a mysterious, easily modulated, continuous drone can be maintained lightweight and easy to carry therapeutically used to heal apnea and snoring...