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| bodhran |
The bodhran is the main percussion in irish traditional music. It is usually played with a double-headed stick and Glen Velez introduced hands/fingers new techiques to play it and also a new design of bodhran to better respond to these new techniques.
The one you see in the pictures on the right is a 20" Coopeman Bodhran with synthetic head and tunings system.
Read more about the bodhran...
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| riqq |
 The riqq is a small tamburine with heavy brass jingles. It's very common in arabic traditional music and can be found throughout North Africa, Meaddle East and all the arabian countries.
Traditionally it has a natural skin (fish, goat) but modern riqqs with synthetic head and tunable system can be now found.
The one you seeon the right is a Copperman riqq with fish skin head and tuning system.
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| tar |
 The tar is a frame drum very common in North Africa and Meaddle East. It traditionally has natural skins and it's not tunable but it's currently easy to find tars with synthetic head and tunable system.
On the right you can see Cooperman Glen Velez series Tars.
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bendir |
 The bendir is traditionally found in North Africa, especially in Marocco.
It's very similar to the tar drum but it has a snare inside, stretched across the skin, which produces a sound similar to the modern snare drum.
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| daf |
 The daf is an ancient drum strictly related to popular and classical music of Iran, Iraq and other middle eastern regions. It's also the main drum in sufi ceremonies.
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| ghaval |
 The ghaval is usually played in Azerbaijani traditional music. The same drums with different names (i.e. the persian dayereh) can be found in the meaddle east region.
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| kanjira |
 The kanjira is a very small frame drum (tamburine) with just one jingle. Along with mrdangam, ghatam and morsing is one of the main percussions of carnatic (south indian) music.
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| ghatam |
 The ghatam is one of the main percussion instruments of south indian carnatic music. It's a clay pot played with fingers usually tuned to a specifi note.
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| udu |
 The udu is an african clay pot percussion. Very similar to the ghatam but with a different playing techniques and rhythmic approach.
Read more about the udu...
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