African instruments are divided into groups such as “idiophones” (instrumsnts that resonate) , “Aerophones” (instruments that require wind), “chordophones” (instruments with strings), and “membranophones” (instruments that have a skin). Kidi Drum (membranophone) Shekere (idiophone) Mbira (idiophone)

Membranophones are instruments that make sound from the vibrations of stretched skins or membranes. Drums, tambourines, and some gongs are common examples of membranophones.

Therefore since an electric keyboard uses no strings it is not a chordophone.

Also known as a goblet drum or doumbek, the darbuka is a membranophone with a single head and a body shaped like a goblet. It is used in the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe or Arabia.

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Doumbek drums usually stand around 18 inches tall, with a 10-inch drum head. Still goblet-shaped, a darbuka drum is smaller than a doumbek (9-16 inches tall) and is almost always made from metals like copper or aluminum. However, darbuka drums have a drum head that is easier to access than a doumbek.

Finding teachers for this instrument isn’t easy, but with this course you can learn at your own speed and in your own time. Malik Azeri is a master percussionist, vocalist and producer who plays Nagara, Darbouka, Daf, Tombak & Congas.

Doumbek Basic Sound Mainly three basic sounds can be created with a Doumbek drum. They are Tek, Doum and Ka.

The goblet drum (also chalice drum, tarabuka, tarabaki, darbuka, derbake, debuka, doumbek, dumbec, dumbeg, dumbelek, tabla, tablah, tableh, toumperleki, tumbak, or zerbaghali, (Egyptian Arabic: دربوكة‎ / “Romanized”: Darbuka) is a single head membranophone with a goblet shaped body used mostly in Egypt and is …

Arabic music or Arab music (Arabic: موسيقى عربية; Mūsīqā ʿArabīyya) includes several genres and styles of music ranging from Arabic classical to Arabic pop music and from secular to sacred music. Afar music is similar to the music of Ethiopia with elements of Arab music.

Traditionally, the body of the Darbuka was made from materials like clay, wood or occasionally, metal, and the head was made from fish skin or goat skin stretched over the top rim. Modern Darbukas are made with metal bodies (typically from cast iron or aluminium) and plastic (synthetic) heads.

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Aerophones • An aerophone produces its sound by the vibration of air • The two main families that are aerophones are woodwind and brass instruments.

Types

• Brass instruments (horns, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, and tubas)
• Woodwind instruments (recorders, flutes, oboes, clarinets, saxophones, and bassoons)

The woodwind family of instruments includes, from the highest sounding instruments to the lowest, the piccolo, flute, oboe, English horn, clarinet, E-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and contrabassoon.

Wind instrument

• Musical instrument.
• Organ.
• Clarinet.
• Trumpet.
• Flute.
• Bagpipe.
• Oboe.
• Accordion.