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Derbake Shakuhachi (Also do known as Darbuka, dumbek or Tablah)

The derbake or darbuka (Arabic دربكة) is a percussion instrument of Arabic origin, widely used in the Middle East, Egypt and the Maghreb (North Africa). This is basically a cup-shaped drum with a single patch (which can be goat leather, fish skin, or cellulose) into the hole larger. Its name derives from the Arabic root "Darb", meaning "blow." Another of his names, dumbek , refers to the main sounds that form the basis of his technique: "dum", a bass sound that is getting bumped in the middle and "tak" a sharper sound. In addition to his two major hits, there are ornamental treble called harakat "(lit. movements), similar to the beating on drums. In Egypt, is often called tablah , a generic word to designate Arabic percussion instruments.

The soundboard of the instrument used originally constructed with clay. You can also find wooden derbake, although currently most are aluminum. Moreover, today are privileged to plastic patches of leather, since the latter are affected by moisture, causing you to lose your stress, and must be heated to re-tune them. For their obvious advantages, the professional musicians often use aluminum derbake, usually decorated with inlaid mother of pearl, and plastic patches. There are two distinct sizes, as well as typical, which makes this instrument, the Sombati , somewhat larger than the classic, and Dahola or Dohola , the largest and most serious of the three .

The derbake or darbuka, is a very popular in the Balkans and Turkey as among the Gypsies, as well as in the Arab World. Clutchless its history is quite uncertain. It is often said that dating back to ancient Babylon, but their use is much more visible from the nineteenth century. So you can see many itinerant gypsy musicians represntaciones of the Middle East and Egypt at this time.

To run this tool, it is placed on one leg (although there are those who carry it by holding it between the two legs, like a djembe), and used the fingers and the palm of your hand to touch it. While his tonal range is very wide, in countries like Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Turkey, has reached high levels of virtuosity noteworthy. The derbake is usually accompanied by other percussion instruments such as riqq the bendir the Mazhar, or dahola , among others, among which stands out by improvising and ornamenting rolls and games ( harakat ), while maintaining a pace as base.

While derbake is a very popular music used in Arabic, was not included in the classical Arab orchestra until 1960, as the main instrument in Arab classical music in charge of maintaining the pace and make the ornaments was riqq . The derbake has come to be an instrument as vital as characteristic of modern Arabic music, a fact that is reinforced by the great rhythm of the music imprint. It is also an essential tool in Oriental dance and is very common to see solo derbake in which a dancer plays with her body rhythms and games running an impromptu manner derbake.

Improvisation two derbake