Palestinian artisan Ayoub al-Zaatari paints a Darbuka, a kind of goblet drum, as he works inside his workshop in the West Bank city of Hebron, April 18, 2019. Ayoub al-Zaatari, 55, produces ...

One of the best-known African drums is the West African djembe. It is shaped like a large goblet and played with bare hands. The body is carved from a hollowed trunk and is covered in goat skin.

From dundun drums and kora harps to ngoni guitars and ghaita flutes, Africa’s musical instrument heritage is as fascinating and diverse as the continent itself.

Everybody wasn’t excited for women to play the djembe, the popular hand-carved, goblet-shaped drum covered in animal skin and draped in ropes. According to Kuumba, traditionally, that drum ...

It feels looks just like just yesterday to me that in 2003, when we set up the drum school in 2003. Every year it feels like ...

They also come in all kinds of shapes, from goblet drums like the djembe from West Africa, to frame drums like the Irish bodhran. There are kettledrums, water drums, talking drums ...

UAE musical instruments include the famous oud (a stringed instrument), drums; tambourine, (which Emiratis call the daf), rababa (a stringed instrument), tanboura, doumbek (a goblet drum) and the nai.

Admission is free and open to the public. Cal Poly students sing and perform in a chamber music ensemble (takht) as well as in a larger orchestra (firqa). The traditional instruments include the oud ...

“The beats of the goblet drum were as rugged as the earth under my feet, the taar strings offering solace to the soul, like a date palm from the scorching sun, the high-pitch kamamcheh glides ...